Communication Technologies

“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876

Information technology is changing continuously and there by affecting the way we communicate. Communication technologies have undergone a revolutionary transformation since past 100 years. All thanks to the science and technology. Now we do not need to wait for weeks to deliver a simple message to the other part of the world. We do not need messenger boys. Massive invisible network of communication technologies help us to reach anyone to any place in any time.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876 few peope considered Bell's invention more than a toy, but it did not take long for people to install telephones in their homes, businesses, or towns. A new era of communication began. Since then communication technologies have under gone various changes. What seemed to science fiction a decade ago is now reality. Cellular phone, internet, intranet, wireless networking, VOIP, video conference etc is now a reality. With the help of these technologies we can communicate with anyone any time within a fraction of a second. We thought telephone is all we need for instant communication. But humans cannot be satisfied. We wanted to see each other while we are communicating. Therefore video conference came into place to satisfy our need. To put life into video conferencing, companies are coming up with new technologies such as Teleportec Conferencing which helps to achieve eye-to-eye contact with all participants.

These communication technologies help companies to achieve high degree of success in communication. One of the important uses of various communication technologies within companies is to build efficient internal communication system. One of successful use of these technologies is

IBM’s intranet – w3.

w3 is a portal to provide one place with personalized access to IBM resources. Integrates content, learning, expertise, collaboration (e.g., Domino applications to a browser, rather than a Notes client) and business applications (Siebel, SAP, and more). It Enables increased productivity through role-based delivery of resources and eliminates development and deployment costs through reuse.

Technology is changing rapidly so is communication technologies. It is just a matter of time when new technology comes and replace existing one. In fact scientists are now working on to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI). So it’s just a matter of time when we will find ourselves chatting, or video conferencing or even calling our friends in other planets!