| Telecom, the most important activity in our daily lives, is | | | | smoke and signal flags. Why do you think that even |
| actually the way we communicate to other people in | | | | without the use of gadgets they still understood each |
| our society and the world. We use several devices to | | | | other? |
| reach out to other people such as mobile phones, | | | | Our modern gadgets only aid us in doing effective |
| television, radio and the Internet. What will happen if all | | | | communication. It enhances the distance that we are |
| of a sudden, the world will lose its means of | | | | able to reach at a significantly short time. Without |
| telecommunications? What happens if all of a sudden | | | | telephones or the Internet, the messages that we need |
| our modern gadgets would stop working? If these | | | | to transmit to the other side of the world would take |
| events happen, is there a way for use to convey our | | | | months before it reaches the intended recipient. |
| message towards that specific person? | | | | The faster the communication process between |
| When all else fails, only one thing will happen. We | | | | people would be, the faster would be the progress of |
| would go back to the times when there was no | | | | the world. Hence, the world without modern devices |
| electricity and no telephones or Internet. Even with the | | | | used for telecommunication won't stop progressing all |
| absence of modern devices and gadgets, the people | | | | at once. The world will start to slow down in progress |
| will not stop communicating. During the earlier times | | | | and people will go back to the time when the only |
| where telephone is not yet available, | | | | ones they were interacting were the people living in |
| telecommunication involved audio signals like drum | | | | their immediate vicinity. |
| beats and lung-blown or whistle and visual signals like | | | | Would you like to live in that kind of society? |