We live in an era when technology rapidly grows, hardly knowing what the next step would be. Technology has become a vital part of our lives, such that when we wake up in the morning we always first check if there’s any missed call on our phones, a Facebook message, a notification, etc. When we respond to a message, many times we would use emojis, stickers or shorten words rather than a full sentence, thinking we deliver a message. Speaking of communication, if we refer to the time of the beginning of civilization, the first type of communication techniques used were the letter (characters) and body language; sound came into practice later. This means nowadays the type of e-communication people rely on seems to be similar to what our ancestors had used before they invented the spoken language.

Nowadays, a lot of people would think of communication as a verbal exchange of information between two sides. However, to me communication does not only represent a verbal exchange, as it has to do more with the message one is trying to convey and the information they transmit, whether that is spoken or body language or sent through an electronic device. In his book The Information, Gleick writes, “We can see now that information is what our world runs on: the blood and the fuel the vital principle. It pervades sciences from top to bottom, transforming every branch of knowledge.” Information is always transmitted from one end to another, then another one, and another one, and it keeps going in a circle. Every time, the transmitted bit of information is mixed with noise (information from another end), so that the receiver can use this new information in a different connotation able to deliver a different message.

The amount of information we receive through technology is immeasurable; it grows every second. Technology has enabled us to always know what is happening in any place on Earth, making us more connected that we have ever been. It makes lives easier for those migrating due to the ability to connect them to their loved ones fast and easy. Technology can also be abused for various reasons, negatively affecting the world and our lives.