The commonness of these four articles seems to be the agreeing statement that old technology in fact was it "cool" at the time, has become invisible to the youtubers and facebookers of today's society. The first article repeated numerous times that telegraph has not been researched to its full capacity and how it has been forgotten over the years and is on its way to distinction. I feel this true. Reading this article, Yes, I learned many new things about the telegraph that with out this assignment, would have not have happened. Its not a talked about form of communication/technology anymore. But when looking back and reading about the purpose and how other communication forms originated from the telegraph, to me, is worth researching. The article about the telegraph kept explaining the separation of communication and transportation. With in a sense, is so obvious, but to imagine no separation between communication and transportation is mind boggling, how did people cope?! Not only was the telegraph responsible for the separation between communication and technology, but I feel is also responsible for changing our language, the use of our dialogue, the way we talk!! for example, producing a telegraph, you had to be brief, short, words were expensive. therefore, the article explains how the telegraph separated the write from the observer. I think this carries out into today. Take a common known form of communication for kids today, text messaging. Its sole purpose is to make a quick statement, therefore you don't have to go through all the small talk on the telephone. All of our abbreviations, and very simple English...can be traced back to the telegraph.

I like what the article, "We may hear too much..." said, 'confronting new technology means a loss of old behavior, and old values, and old sense of self'. Take Youtube and Facebook. The new technology has changed the way we view ourselves and the extent we want to put ourselves out there. Just like the example in our first day of class, when we were instructed to "creep" on each other and find out as much information on each other as we can;some you could find a lot. These networks changed how we want to portray ourselves. Also, with the use of the television, you have supermodels strutting their stuff down the runways on TV. This whole idea of imagery changed how women feel about themselves and how their sense of self can be altered. (This may be going a little further than the article suggests, but I feel gives a good example.)

But in other relations, take the article about the radio, it suggests that back when it was first introduced, everyone was so private about their lives. In fact, it stated that then, the radio was a was "leakage of signals into the hands of unauthorized persons". People were so paranoid that their entire life history and goals would be leaked to the wrong persons through the use of this "new technology". To think that back then it was good to keep things to yourself. Everything now a days can be found out with the click of a mouse with out that person even knowing, scary to think about. I think that old technology needs to be researched today in order to not let new technology take over our entire lives.