I generation (pt 2)

Ok so now is the time where I continue boring you with my thoughts on technology. Like I said, in this post I will be talking about movies, communication and life in general.

sooooooo Movies:

Well it is pretty obvious how far movies have come. Don't know if much of you know this but one of the first movies ever shown was the great train robbery and there was footage of a train coming towards the audience. The audience freaked out at this and thought the train was going to come out of the screen and hit them. Flash forward today and that is actually happening with more and more movies coming out in 3D (Monsters vs Aliens, Avatar etc) seems this is where movies are going now. But lets go back a few years before this. Looking at any movie in the 1920 till about the 50's and it's black and white. Wizard of Oz revolotionised film by combining both. Look at the early colour films and you see a different picture quality. Even movies up to the early 90's have a different quality somewhere in between now and the 50's. I am no expert on how films are made, but I assume this is due to such things as camera capturing, editing, lighting etc. Obviuosly now all the editing is done on computer making it a much more crisp image. Ever watched an old movie and wondered why a black spot flashes up every now and then and lines in the screen? Well this was the old edting style where they use to just glue the bits of film together from the reels those black dots are called "cigarette burns" and they are a mark to know where on reel ends and the other starts. so from the 90's 3d was a gimmick and around but very solemn I remember going to the Melbourne show and they had a tent that was a cinema showing 3d images and i was so scared I had to take my glasses off (a Bug came out trying to eat me and a tiger was jumping above my head) fast forward today and its the new norm. James Cameron has been waiting 10 years for technology to advance so he could make Avatar. Every new animation (disney pixar, dream works) is coming out in 3d now. So is it still a "gimmick"? I say no I think it is here to stay, with more and more live action films being rumoured to be 3d (Harry Potter, Spiderman, Avatar 2). Even T.V is becoming 3d with the release of 3d televisions. My question is will we see computer games take the step into 3d. I haven't heard anything yet but sure it is in the works.

Communication (is the key.....lol had to say that)

Obviously communication has changed probably the most over the decades. Carrier pigeons, Telegraphs, Morse code are all things of the past and now replaced with Email, Mobile phones, and instant messaging (MSN,Skype etc). Alexander Bell created the telephone, I wonder what he would think now if he saw us on mobile phones. Mobile phones started off as "bricks" and only the wealthy could afford it (think i heard they started at 1000 dollars). Now nearly everyone has one and they are now only half a brick in size (although still getting smaller) Now phones aren't just used for ringing people but also used for text messaging, surfing the web, sending emails, organising your life, listening to music...and the list goes on. I am typing this on my laptop but I could easily type this again on my Iphone, seems computers are becoming obselete with mobile phones doing pretty much everything a computer can do anyway.
Gone are the days we send some a letter or decreasing slowly is calling people. With social netowrking sites increasing why spend money calling someone? When you can simply send them a message on facebook. I am noticing a trend of instead when we used to call someone for thier birthday we know text messaging them or even just facebook them (Thank you Facebook for reminding me of my friends birthdays so I don't have to remember). Communication stays fundamentally the same with the generic "how are you going" it's just the way we send it that is changing.

Life:

with technological changes obviously we adjust our lives accordingly. As I write this on my LAP TOP I am watching T.V with the SET TOP box my IPHONE is next to me and I am also uploading photos from my DIGITAL CAMERA. (see all the technology I am using in everyday life)
I watched an interesing documentry (can't remember the name) but it was all about a family use to having all the above technology and more going back to the 1900's and every day they would go forward a decade till they got to the year 2000. They had kids who were use to laptops and game consoles and tv, and the parents had laptops mobile phones. It got me thinking how would i survive? The answer is....I couldn't I would be so bored and wouldn't know what to do without having a mobile or a laptop or even some form of game console. I agree myself this sounds bad but having been use to growing up with this it is hard to think of life without all the stuff i take for granted.

So in conclusion thinking about my life I think I was born at the right time (1988) I have seen the development of computers ( From Amega Commodore to Acer Aspire laptop), Tapes to C.D's to Digital downloads, game consoles (atari to Wii). It kinda freaks me out that in 22 years of my life just how much technology has changed and how I have adapted, I remember my first internet experience I had no idea what I was doing, now look at me here in the blogosphere, on facebook, twitter,msn,itunes,email etc etc.
I thought the atari was the best thing ever invented (I said that for the nintendo, gameboy, N64, Playstation and Wii).
Just goes to show how much tecnology has changed throughout the years and I hope you think next time you are surfing the web or playing a game console.....WHAT WOULD MY LIFE BE LIKE WITHOUT THIS. Because unfortunatley there are places in the world where people can't afford stuff like this or have no internet/ game consoles etc.


Would like to hear your thoughts on this and how you have seen technology change or bring up anything I missed. So leave comments please