3.1C Communication technology

• Commodities 


  Any useful or valuable thing, especially something that is bought or sold. E.g. Grain, vegetables, and precious metals
• Commodities

  • Valuable materials E.g Fossil Fuels traded
  • Manufactured goods
  • Accelerated due to lower manufacturing costs
• What Developments were made in ICT and Mobile Communitcations?

  Telegraph

  Telephone

  The Internet

  Social network

  Satellites

  Broadband and Fibre Optics
• Telegraph

  • First cables placed across the Atlantic in the 1860s which replaced a three week boat trip
• Telephone

  • Key technology for communications worldwide
  • Originally landline, now mobile phones
• The Internet and Social Network

  • The Internet began by a scheme funded by the US department of Defence in the Cold War
  • Designed as a way of linking important research computers in different locations leading to connections growing massively
  • 2014- 5 Billion Facebook likes were logged daily
• Satellites

  • Launched in the 1970s
  • Continuously broadcast Position and time data
• Broadband and fibre optics

  • Vat amounts of data is conveyed across the ocean via Fibre Optic Cables
  • Owned by TNCs and Governments
  • 1 million km of Fibre Optic cables carry all of the world's data