OLD AND NEW INVENTIONS IN COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
SPANISH STUDENTS´ PRESENTATION ABOUT INVENTIONS IN COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
TEXT OF THE PRESENTATION
Storage is one of the most relevant inventions in our recent history, if you go on reading we are going to show you a lot of reasons why we consider it so important:
Tiny volumes: Nowadays, we can store many information in small devices like USBs or memory cards, previously, all this information was in a lot of different books and it took much more space.
Simple transport: These tiny devices are much more easier to carry, so they can get further and faster, anywhere in the world.
No massive felling of trees: Electronic storage needs no paper at all, that means we have to cut less trees, so it contributes to keep the air cleaner.
Divulgation of culture and knowledge: Since the beginning of the informatic storage we were trying to optimize the way of storing data. At first, we had heavy blocks that couldn´t keep more than a megabyte. Nowadays, we can store more than five gigas in one little USB. This makes easier the divulgation of information and knowledge
Accesibility to information: You can find easier and faster any information you want.
Faster scientific advances: If we go back in time, like 70 years ago, our oldest relatives had to go to libraries for searching information about something like science, technologies, history... Now is as easy as texting "Wikipedia" in your favorite search engine (everybody uses Google, we all know that). We get a lot of information and details about almost everything you can imagine. This was a huge change for all of us.
Equality of rights: It makes easier that everybody can have access to the same information at the same time, and that contributes to live in a more equal society.
Organization and economy contents, dinamism and upgrades: The computer reduces the time it takes to look up some concepts, it is a faster access to the stored information, and also inmediately, many changes or upgrades are integrated.
Repercussion on the bussiness world and in the publicity: Storage is also important because if you had a conversation and you would like to check some information, you can go back to the previous words.
More freedom for choosing our future: Our future. A big mystery for all of us, we don't know what is coming next in this big travel. But one thing is sure, we have an end in common. We spend lot of time thinking about it until the time arrives. What do we want for our future? What are we going to do? Are we going to achieve great things? Those questions need an answer. As it was said before, this new storage era lets us search lots of info about almost everything. This also lets us decide our future. Information is essential for it! It doesn't only let us figure out the name of that weird emperor or the birthdate of king of England. You can have it all in your hand.
Bridging the social gap: In the past was more complicated to have access to the information. Storage helps us closing the social gap because as the years are passing by, more and more people from different countries and status can have accese to the same information, so the equality of opportunities is increasing all over the world.
Strategy generation: With all the profiles and information of the people, you know more about your rivals or competitors, and you can take advantage of having this information at real time.
So, let´s consider this invention twice, and maybe from today now on, you can consider it as one of the most relevant in our history¡
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION¡
STEVE JOBS POSTER CREATED BY OUR SPANISH STUDENTS
STUDENTS´ IMPRESSIONS
My name is Jairo and this is my story about the Erasmus project´s trip. At first, I was really frightened, I had never taken a plane before, and I didn´t know what kind of people I could find in Italy. When I made my first step into Napoli, I started to feel everything: tension, hunger for adventures, the rythm of my heartbeat… everything. When I arrived at my new home for one week I was really, really nervous!. There was a poor communication between the Salerno family and me, but their kindness resolved that problem (and a couple of gestures, of course). I was really excited because I wanted to visit Rome so badly. My dreams were fulfilled, Rome is beautiful, and people in Italy… they are really cool and kind. It was a great experience, and I really want to repeat it, you really improve with it. Jairo (15 years)
Last May we travelled to Italy, I remember that I was very nervous, I knew that week was going to be amazing, we were going to meet a lot of people, and visit a lot of Italian monuments and cities. At eight p.m. we arrived at the hotel where the teachers slept, and where our host families received us. Next day, Monday, we met the rest of the students who participated in the project, we presented our work about the storage and we visited Capua. On Tuesday we got up at half past five, because we were going to visit Rome. When we arrived in Rome, we visited the Museum of the History of Communications, then the Pantheon of Rome, the Trevi´s Fountain, the Navona square; but we couldn´t visit the Coliseum because we had to go back to Capua. On Wednesday, we presented our work about Steve Jobs, and in the evening we visited Caserta, the Amphitheatre of Caserta, and the Royal Palace of Caserta, then we went to a supermarket to buy what we needed. On the fifth day, we visited Naples, where we could see the Vesuvius, we visited the Science Museum and the Remote Future, in the center of Naples. The last day, we met the Mayor of Capua and we visited the Campano Museum, in Capua. At five o´clock we went to the farewell party, we had a great time, and at eleven o´clock, we went home . On Saturday we got up at five o´clock, and we went to the airport to come back to Spain. Raquel (14 years)