Sentence examples for modern communications technology from inspiring English sources

In his widely noted book "Amusing Ourselves To Death," first published in 1987 and updated in 2005, Neil Postman makes a compelling case that modern communications technology is undermining actual communication, debasing the process of learning and posing a real and present threat to the viability of democratic government and our way of life.

On Monday she also urged the international community to reach out to the opposition movement in Myanmar by using modern communications technology.

Modern communications technology makes this easy to coordinate.

But she has previously spoken about the importance of modern communications technology in aiding democratic uprisings.

The blame is often placed on modern communications technology, especially the virtual type.

It's very difficult to do that, even with modern communications technology, when people are remote.

The Commission heard testimony from NSA representatives and others about the difficulties presented by the explosion in modern communications technologies.

In recent years, there has been much pontificating about how modern communications technologies are changing the way that we relate to other people.

All of them played with the same small set of hypotheses: that modern communications technologies make us more informed but less wise, more connected but less attuned to the needs of others and to our own true feelings.

Horses hung around in the labor force for quite some time after they were first challenged by "modern" communications technologies like the telegraph and the railroad, hauling stuff and people around farms and cities.

Wired has some shots from Bell Labs in New Jersey where they invented the transistor and the laser and essentially paved the way for modern communications technologies.