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To determine:
Whether digital transmission changed the nature of communication.
Introduction:
Digital transformation is the change to a more technologized and informative systems. This is with the use of technology and rapid collection and transmission of information in the 21st century which has evolved the sectors in the economy. This digital transformation is where computerized systems were brought in from analog systems.
This digital transformation has led to the increase in speed of data and messages from one point to another, which is known as digital transmission.
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Question on digital transmission and how it has changed the nature of communication.
In the past days, communication was a barrier and had major inefficiencies. This was because communication means were expensive and time consuming. The quickest modes of communication costed really high and the cheapest forms of communication modes took a long time for messages to be delivered from one individual to another.
However, with the evolvement of technology in the modern days, there were some advancements done to the communication forms. Digital transmission was set up to transmit information or messages from on individual to another in the 21st century.
This technology drastically affected the communication industry by reducing the high cost of production and improved the speed of communication. The cost reduction was also passed to the consumers and now within mille seconds information is being available to be transferred to anyone around the world at any given time. This flexibility has brought out globalization. This has led to some explicit advantages in the modern days, communication tools have expanded from telephone calls, texting, emails, social media, video conferencing and etc.
Therefore, this change in data transmission has drastically changed the nature of communication during the information era.
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