| In the last few years it seems that phones have | | | | functioned as a phone exclusively. Until the last |
| come a very long way from their original status | | | | few years phone service the simple purpose of |
| of simply making and receiving phone calls. | | | | allowing you to verbally communicate with another |
| Nowadays phones are phones but there also | | | | person who is not in your immediate presence. |
| personal assistants, tablet PCs, remote controls, | | | | While this purpose was undoubtedly an important |
| etc. The great leaps in technology that have | | | | step forward in technology, what we've been able |
| allowed this to take place have not only | | | | to accomplish and all are the last few years is |
| revolutionized the telephone market but I've also | | | | something like the equivalent of comparing an old |
| revolutionized how we use technology as a | | | | canvas and wood biplane to a space shuttle. |
| civilization. It was not all that long ago that we're | | | | With the modern advent of the so called "smart |
| all using pay phones to make our personal phone | | | | phones" we now have the capability to do a |
| calls, and it was really only around a century ago | | | | seemingly infinite number of tasks with the use of |
| that we were able to make phone calls at all. The | | | | a single hand held device. Thanks to advancement |
| advancement in computer technology that allowed | | | | and technology we can now surf the Internet, |
| us to go from a scratchy unreliable phone call, to | | | | play video games, send and receive videos, and |
| being able to make it crystal clear phone call | | | | even turn off of our home lights from another |
| without wires, while simultaneously being able to | | | | state. Who can deny that this really is a |
| surf the Internet, took place in roughly a little | | | | miraculous advancement in technology? All of this |
| more than a single long lifespan. This amazing | | | | leaves our imaginations to make up the future. |
| advancement technology truly shows human | | | | We're only in the earliest stages of the smart |
| achievement at its best. | | | | phone and we're all left to wonder at what the |
| The telephone as we roughly know it today was | | | | future holds in terms of the advancement of this |
| invented in the later part of the 19th century. The | | | | technology. One thing is for sure, what seems |
| principle use of the telephone remained unchanged | | | | impossible today will likely be possible, and even |
| for roughly 100 years when cell phones began at | | | | routine tomorrow. |
| the marketplace, and even then the phone still | | | | |