1. Modern Communication and Society

2. Transistor

3. Integrated Circuit

4. IC chip

6. Facts to consider
Extended plot stories over multiple episodes require audience commitment
USA TODAY, the country’s most popular newspapers, uses very short stories and lots of graphics
Sound bites have shortened from 42 seconds to 7
Tweets have a 140 character limit

7. Low threshold of boredom Era of instant gratification
Result
Short attention span
Low threshold of boredom
Era of instant gratification

9. Greatest change in society
The computer
They run everything
They make the decisions
They hold all the information about all of us

10. Modern communication and society
We’re at the beck and call of our devices
We’ve developed a low threshold of boredom
We’ve lost our privacy
Anything anybody wants to say they can say to everybody
We’re in a global village