Communication Progresses Between People In today's hustle and bustle of everyday life, men, women, and children walk past one another without even a friendly smile or hello. As globaltechnology grows, communication between individuals gets more distant andless personal. Even in families, messages are left on the answeringmachine or as notes on the fridge. Therefore, with todays' highlycompetitive technological world, it is vital to receive and maintain someold-fashioned inter-personal communication. Communication throughout history progresses from face-to-face to smokesignals, to the Pony Express to Canada Post, to the telephone to telexmachines to modems. The fax machine is so impersonal that neither voicenor hand writing are used, and personality is lost. Now a video link wherethe person can see the caller and feel a personal touch, is trying tore-establish the original methods while using high-tech systems. Thus, astechnology increases, we can clearly see attempts to get back to the "oldway" through usage of time saving methods. One benefit of high-tech communications systems is the ability to makepreviously impossible communications possible. Think of the father and sonseparated by an ocean, one in England, the other in Newfoundland. This iswhere the telephone plays a role. It facilitates an almost instantaneousconnection at a reasonable cost, and bridges a gap. Fortunately, this isnow made possible by satellite systems launched into orbit by a recentlydeveloped rocket deployment system. Aside from this, people should attemptto communicate with people in their immediate surroundings more often, anduse the more up-to-date technology sparingly, and only when appropriate. If a walk is taken down the street, or perhaps a ride on the subway,there will always be people seen with "Walkmans" or similar escapismdevices. People are turning off the world, blotting it out, and turning totheir own drummer. This in turn,...