Communication was once a simple act whereby a speaker produces a message that is heard by a listener. These days, with the advancement of communication technologies and broad scale broadcasting, information is no longer clear and relies on the interpretation of the listener. The new media of the 21st century woman and man, such as: CD-ROM, internet, social networks, YouTube, web logs, etc, etc, are steadily replacing the sources from which we used to gather our information. With this information pool rapidly expanding, one must ask themselves about the factuality of our growing database of knowledge. Coupled with the development of analog and digital technology, the world is hastily being connected, opening up new areas for which one can study and work.
The popularity and availability of the internet has seen the improvement of technologies and social interconnectivity within both the World Wide Web and the actual world. As exciting and new as the digital world is, it is my opinion that looking outside is reality.
"There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world"-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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