Evolution of Media

Prehistoric Age (1500 BC – 1500 AD)

The Prehistoric era is the period of human activity between the use of the first stone
tools ~3.3 million years ago and the invention of writing systems, the earliest of which appeared
~5300 years ago. Technology that predates recorded history. History is the study of the past
using written records; it is also the record itself. Anything prior to the first written accounts of
history is prehistoric (meaning "before history"), including earlier technologies. About 2.5 million
years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who
used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, cut food, and bury their dead.
Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
The Industrial era is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and
social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries,
characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the
power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
Electronic Age (1930s – 1980s)
The Electronic age is the invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age.
People harnessed the power of transistor that led to the transistor communication became more
efficient.
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
 Informational era is a period in human history characterized by the shift from
traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an
economy based on information computerization. The internet paved the way advanced
the used of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, devices wearable
technology. Moreover, voice, image, sounds, and data are digitalized.

We need to consider and give emphasize from prehistoric age into digital age because
of new innovations from the simplest going to complex invention. Without this era that passing
by, there's no new technologies that occur at the present in for the next generation.  
 DISCONNECT TO RECONNECT

We are surrounded by technology, and it is progressing for our own

good. But, excess of anything starts to take a toll on our personal lives without
us even noticing. Same is the case with social media. Previously, the word
‘social’ used to refer a person who attends social gatherings, get-togethers,
and spends quality time with relatives, friends, etc. But, now its definition has
changed completely because of technology innovation. Suddenly a person is
considered social if he or she is spends hours active on social media, rarely
even interacting with those friends off-line.

Do we really need these social websites to interact with the people we love?
What about that love, care, and concern that we used to show before, meeting
face to face? Social media can never take that place of personal interactions.
It is not that they are not good at all, they definitely help us to remain
connected with people, but the increased involvement of social media in life is
somewhere making us forget about the warmth and love of real life
connections.

Even when we do plan a dinner outside with friends or a family, a large chunk
of that time is eaten up on smartphones, checking the social status or
activities of our friends online. We are the generation of less talk and more
surf. Often forgetting to compliment each other face to face, we never forget to
like a status, photo, or send a Facebook birthday wish to those friends we’d
otherwise perhaps not remember. Instead of thinking about the people right
across from us, we remain more concerned about the interactions of friends
online. Does our online social life overpower our real social life or supplement
it? Is the convenience of digital interaction replacing the intimacy of our
relationships?

This increased presence of social media has put both positive and negative
effects on our lives. Where on one hand it has created a positive impact in
keeping us more updated and informed.