Communication: Cellphones and Phonographs Within the Same Roof

By Kevin M and Kurt S 2A group 7

 

 India has over 65 million cell phone users and is growing rapidly.

                                                                                                This growth in cell phones is quickly phasing out the old Phonographs

aphs instead.  This creates a battle with 

                                                                                                that India used in the past.  The switch to cell phones is one that

                                                                                                comes with numerous advantages.  These advantages include no

                                                                                                more messy tangles of wire or dangerous over head lines.  The

                                                                                                conflict is when some traditional people try to prevent this upgrade

                                                                                                and go with the old Phonogr

                                                                                                people that see potential to improve their lives and that traditional

                                                                                                people believe that old is better.

 

 

 

 

This graph shows the growth of cell phones in contrast to the removal of the tariff on such devices.

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This a typical Indian streetcorner telephone pole. Because most of the technological gains in the major cities has been quick and not planned out or regulated, city lines are inefficient and downright dangerous. Because traditionalists do not beleive in investing in better technology, those who imbrace it are forced to suffer.

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An eldery Indian lady using a very new technology: Cellphones.  This technology has now become very cheap and a more reliable source of information than the humble telephone, as shown by the picture preceding.

 

Grandma and little Akshay

Akshay's Grandma got her first telephone today. He calls her from the USA to congratulate her.

Akshay: Hello, Grandma! Can you hear me? 

 

Grandma: Akshay, is that you dear? Am I talking into the right circle?

 

Akshay: Yes, Grandma. I can hear you very well.

 

Grandma: How did you know I got a telephone, I hooked it up just today?

 

Akshay: Auntie (Insert Name) E-mailed me.

 

G: Did she do that with a phone?

 

A: No, she sent it over the internet with a computer!

 

G: Oh, I guess I should tackle one device at a time, eh?

 

A: Don't worry grandma, one day you will be using a Smart-Board to do your painting.

 

G: But the rice paper and hand made paints make my art so special, I just can't see how technology can replace that.

 

A: You said the typewriter would never replace good old handwritten notes.

 

G: True Akshay, but not all technologies are the same. I would never replace my records with tapes.

 

A: We have MP3s now and even Cd's are fading away.

 

G: I bet they do not have white noise or pops, do they? Your Aunt has a Tape player and it is way to clear, it has no character.

 

A: Well grandma, I have to go to my Java 4568i@4#Techbob C######## programing seminar now. Have fun with your new phone!

 

G: (To self) I miss back when Abacuses and Automatic transmitions were the high tech tools...

 

Pictures and script by Kevin Moskowitz