Technology & Teams Online Lecture
The online lecture details the new age of pervasive communication we have entered. An era in which global communication is the key to a successful organization and constant contact with employees is the key to efficiency and speed. The boundaries between work, play, and rest have been whittled down; all aspects of life are subject to the demands that come alongside pervasive communication. While you can now coordinate your social life through facebook via your mobile phone you are also subjected the barrage of emails that often come after normal work hours. The pervasiveness of communication is unprecedented but it is hardly the beginning of a brave new world, there are still many changes that need to be made to make communication truly global. Much of the undeveloped world still has yet to take full advantage of literacy gains from the printing press, an invention created over 500 years ago.
As human beings we tend to be short sighted, whether looking to the past or the future, about where we stand in relation to both. When it comes to communication, though we obviously live in an unprecedented time in which we can communicate across oceans and boundaries, we still cannot imagine the effect that the printing press would have had upon the old world. The creation of the movable metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450 essentially opened up a world that had been lost for nearly 1500 years. Before this books had been painstaking hand written by a handful of learned men and distributed thusly. The printing press opened the door to universal literacy, something we still have not reached obviously, but also to the work of the ancient Greeks and Romans which inspired the Renaissance and eventually the enlightenment, leading the to the art, music, culture, languages, and systems of government we have today.
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