Tao bee a Td ms. J0=mil oSLSso EMTECH: ICT ACTIVITY: What is it now with ICT and what was it then without ICT? ay -— pe A US sr BA atTHINGS I'VE DONE tl TR NVOLVES ICT EN T eC INOLOGIES ed ep ite) !icT: THEN US. iol cog : ® What is it now with ICT and what was it then without ICT? UZ - : \S How Technology Has Changed Our Lives: COMMUNICATION @©00THEN 00 e@ NOW Snail mail was a primary source of communication then, as opposed to today, where it is the primary source of junk mail. Having pen pals in elementary school and being incredibly excited about writing letters and buying stamps. While there’s something very romantic about the idea of snail mail, it’s called snail mail for a reason—it’s slow and ultimately, inconvenient. Today, we use literally anything else but snail mail to communicate with each other. Whether it’s email, text, video chat, fax or instant messaging, we have an arsenal of technologies that allow us to contact each other without having to find a mailbox. Technology has successfully shortened communication from several days to mere minutes.PUES Saori How Technology Has Changed Our Lives: TRANSPORTATION 00 THEN There's nothing more inconvenient than horse buggies(calesa), ships, and those little covered wagons. Forget about the ridiculous amount of time it takes to get everywhere, talk about uncomfortable! People regularly died trying to get from point A to point B. Now that's inconvenient. Our modes of transportation today are the definition of glamorous. From the first class plane rides to the flashy sports cars, everything today is about speed, safety and comfort. For affordable rides we have taxis, pedicabs, jeepneys and bus. How Technology Has Changed Our Lives: ENTERTAINMENT @0 0 THEN oo e NOW People back in the day had a very different idea of ‘entertainment: In contrast to the more “cultured” elite who patronized the theater and opera house, leisure for regular Filipinos usually revolved around cockfighting or the less popular bullfighting. Listening to band concerts was one of the reasons why people frequented this place. Luneta gave them an incredible opportunity to hear soothing music, long before portable music players were even considered possible. Entertainment for Manila’s elite was ‘social entertainment’ This could mean attending family reunions during which each of them showcased refined tastes and skills in music, poetry, dance, and visual arts. Sometimes, they would also be invited by someone to attend events where they could Thank goodness for the movie theaters, cable television, Netflix, video games and phone apps! Not only are things a little more fun than. they were back then, we're also starting to get more diverse media representation whether it’s gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, Now that’s what I call progress. hobnob with other social circles. T] GENERALIZATION w Current digital systems such as computers, smartphones, tablets and laptops have evolved over time. The typewriter was replaced by digital systems such as a computer and word processing software. Telephones have evolved over time into versions that are portable such as mobile phones and, more recently, smartphones. With all of these revolutions, technology has also made our lives easier, faster, better, and more fun. Sure, technology sometimes makes us complacent (especially as a student; we’re too eager to procrastinate). But without the awesome progression of technology, we’d still be using outhouses and screaming out our windows to talk to our friends. Our dependency on technology isn’t such a bad thing. Thus, the collective body of technological endeavor evolves by creating new elements from within itself. It forms a system that is constantly changing in ways that nobody can quite predict. This evolutionary process provides the impetus in turn for large-scale changes in science, the economy, and much of human culture.