day 18 : They Were Important
There was time when these things were important items in our life. But their significance fades away along with the rise of newer technology which in turn could fully replace their functions. I’m here talking about public telephone service, postal service and pager which are replaced by cellular phone, email and short message service.
In the age of connectivity as in today, communication is considered as the most important thing in life which affect many people behavior and habits. Thus, communication service evolves into faster and cheaper forms. Years ago, public telephone boxes were provided in many places and crowds which were relied for people communication needs. But today, by the availability of cellular which become less expensive, the popularity of public telephone box declines. People would dial their colleagues directly to their cells. They no longer need public telephone service, even worse, most public telephone service are unable to dial to cellphones.
Other great changes of communication service’s popularity are postal service and pager. Postal service which was important as a reliable mean of communication is replaced by e-mail. It is faster, cheaper and reliable, even every one could have their own address privately in easier form to be remembered. One thing that keeps postal service survive is the uniqueness of handwriting of a letter which eventually could be mimiced by e-mail. While pager which was also popular as a beeper is no longer used because people could easily beep other by short message service which is bundled in a cellular phone’s service. It even provide in faster and more private way that people could type their message without the presence of third party as it was in pager.
Finally, nature selection is a natural process which could never be evaded. Even it should not bother us and made us try to avoid such changes. It would be much better if we could aware by these changes and anticipate them to attain advatages they offered. Moreover, these are the evidence of human activity to evolve into a better condition.
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