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Media Law and Literacy Project Key Post

            Technology through the years has evolved in such a way that it has allowed us to evolve as a society good and bad. Something that was once seen as science fiction or even impossible could just as easily be here today. Almost 50 years ago, the very first mobile phone call was made on the DynaTAC “Brick” phone weighing in at 2 ½ pounds and almost the size of the shoe box. The call was made to a rival phone company, AT&T, by Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive after a long-standing competition to be first.

            With the first phone being not very convenient or efficient, with a 10-hour charge time, the race for innovation was on. 16 years later, the 3210 by Nokia was shown to the public and ever since then it has been a very harsh competition back and forth. Much faster than the last invention, 5 years later we get the 2004 blackberry we all know and love. One of the more modern phones that we know of this is when the race for the modern phone really takes off. Only two years later the invention of the stereotypical flip phone, “ZV50” by Samsung comes out with the best pixel to inch screen ratio seen yet. Then, in the same span of time it took to go from the Nokia to Samsung’s flip phone, we get the iPhone. The exponential growth in the phone industry is just a staple of technology and how as humans, we strive for the best and we do not stop until we get it. However, the exponential growth of technology is not only reserved for phones, but it has also been growing for computers, AI, appliances, and even household accessories.

            The first mobile phone call has paved the way for many integrated technologies such as Alexa or the smartphone, both using AI, and mobile calls for an automated experience. Alexa and Google home has turned mobile phone calling into an afterthought by integrating it in a way that allows for accessibility, and efficiency. Taking a small piece of technology and being able to add other features to it is a prime example of how far we have come technologically. Exponential growth as a society is what allows us to create and learn such new things so fast.

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