以The internet makes the world small为题的作文

以The internet makes the world small为题的作文
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The history of the world,from one angle,is the ongoing story of how it's gotten smaller and smaller in terms of travel and communication.As recently as the early 1800s,all travel and communication was the same thing - in other words,with the exception of the rare message-carrying pigeon,people had to take communications (letters,decrees,etc.) to their destinations the same way they got there,whether by boat between nations or across the U.S.on horses and wagons.In the mid-1800s,this started to change.
Returning to the shrinking world metaphor,we might as well say - with today's faxes,Web sites,iPhones and all the rest - that communications capabilities are nearly limitless.They are definitely instantaneous.Nothing brings people so close as to send text messages in real time,or share a video chat over the Internet,or be connected to the technology wherever they are and with a variety of devices - phones,netbooks,laptops,iPods,fax machines,etc.Even technology from several decades past,like the fax,has a comfortable spot in today's communications toolbox,with their low prices,ease of operation and ability to replicate a document for a distant viewer in what is still the fastest way.
Without the limitations of travel and distance,people have more time to collaborate with more people,and in more ways.The range of technologies - from old standbys like fax machines to the latest 3D imaging - is amazing,and what remains to be seen are how they will usher in not just a new era and further reduced world,but lead to even greater advances that knit people together ever more tightly.