Technological Revolution

Technological RevolutionNameCourseTutor’s NameDateICT Revolutions: Continuity and ChangeA revolution in technology is a period in which rapid changes in technology cause an abrupt change in society. When Alexander Graham Bell patented what we know as the telephone he received a patent for improvement of telegraphy, a continuation of the technology of transmission of communication over wires. Instead of telegraphing, people could now transmit the sound of their own voice. When Alexander Graham Bell unveiled his telephone, Mark Twain described the technology as the most unusual of all unusual things in the world. In Mark Twain’s perspective, the telephone was a revolutionary technology that detached speech conversation from its social environment and planted it in an electrified line making it possible for a one-sided conversation to exist in on each side of the line CITATION Mar61 \l 7177 (Twain, 1961). The US Patent Office did not view Alexander Graham Bell’s invention as a new technology but rather as an improvement of existing telegraph technology CITATION Fis94 \l 7177 (Fischer, 1994). On the other hand Mark Twain was awestruck by new technology that abruptly changed society by