Globalization

Imagine this: you want to ask your friends out to go for dinner and a movie. Because cell phones have not been invented, you have to walk 5 kilometer to your friend’s house, ask him or her if they wanted to go with you, walk another 5 kilometer to ask another friend, and another 10 more kilometers to get back home and change.




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That was the Stone Age where nobody owned hand phones and communication was obviously a tedious process.

Fast forward to the 1900s where the first, two way radios were invented (they were known as mobile rigs). They were installed only in some vehicles such as ambulances and police cars. In 1940s Motorola came up with the first walkie talkie. This was a widely popular form of communication but of course, it could only be used when two people were within a certain distance from each other.


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“First Walkie talkie “

Now, in the year 2008, cell phones usage is raging. Cell phones now come with functions that blow the mind of many, touch screen phones, cameras that boost the same number of mega-pixels as digital cameras, phones that allow you to surf the internet anywhere anytime, phones that play music. The list is never-ending. No wonder so many people have caught on the craze of cell phones. Cell phones are no long just used for sending each others SMSes or just calling your friends to ask how to do a math question. Cell phones are now music players, cameras and many more jumbled into one.



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These are some statistics that show how technology has globalized.

• In the world, there are more than 2.4 billion cell phone users
• More than 1000 new customers are added every minute
• Mobile phone shipments grew 19 percent to 810 million units in 2005 and are expected to rise by 15 percent to 930 million units
• Cell phone usage in Africa is growing almost twice as fast as any other region and jumped from 63 million users two years ago to 152 million today.
(Taken from: http://www.revivaltimes.com/cellphonestats.html)