OMG! The times, they have a-changed.

Early Telecommunications – smoke signals, drums, flags

Telegraph and telephone Radio and Television Computer networks and the Internet

◦ Web 1.0 (world wide web, top down communication)

◦ Web 2.0 (bottom up and everywhere in between!)

"We now have more varied choices of communication technology than Socrates ever imagined—television, Web sites, movies, video blogging, andphoto essays. Printed text has lost its monopoly to multimedia. For students to be effective communicators in the 21st century, they need to be sophisticated in expressing ideas with multiple communication technologies, not just the written word.

Bernajean Porter, May 2006

“While the old Web was about Web sites, clicks, and “eyeballs,” the new Web is about communities, participation and peering. As users and computer power multiply, and easy-to-use tools proliferate, the Internet is evolving into a global, living, networked computer that anyone can program. Even the simple act of participating in an online community makes a contribution to the new digital commons – whether one’s building a business on Amazon or producing a video clip for YouTube, creating a community around his or her flickr photo collection or editing the astronomy entry on Wikipedia.”

Wikinomics, Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

“More than 90% of the technology that will affect our daily lives at the beginning of the 21st century has not been invented. This means that more innovations will be introduced in the next ten years than were produced throughout previous human history."

Freeman Dyson, physicist and principal architect of

the theory of quantum electrodynamics

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler

Let’s meet two of the MVPs…

Rupert Murdoch Sumner Redstone

News Corporation 20th Century Fox MySpace News International News Limited New York Post The Wall Street

Journal Times Herald

Record Dow Jones &

Company HarperCollins

National Amusements CBS Viacom MTV and MTV2 VH1 BET Comedy Central Nickelodeon Nick at Nite TV Land CMT Spike TV Showtime The Movie Channel Infinity Broadcasting Paramount Pictures Dream Works King World Productions

Society’s problems or the portrayal of society’s problems in the media?

Consumers of the media or its producers?

Chart shows technologies that teens predict will be obsolete by 2015. Graphic / 2006 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index

http://www.physorg.com/news9910.html