It’s no wonder that people have become addicted to television. Once upon a time, humankind had only the spoken or written word to rely on to fill the void of creativity in the minds of many. While listening and reading important information is helpful, many people can’t read, and many more are seeking something besides just relevant or pertinent information. They’re seeking entertainment when they turn on their tvs.

Communication is the spreading of information and ideas between people. Long ago the best form of entertainment for ancient people was to sit at the knee of an elder and listen to the stories of wisdom and experience. The only other way people learned new things from outside their own daily lives was to hear it from messengers. Sharing information has always intrigued the human animal.

For many cultures that really aren’t that old at all, the spoken word was and has been the best way to pass information along. However, humans seem as a rule to be a conquering species. As one more developed culture took over another, those that used only spoken word to pass down their histories found they were no longer able to do so. Reading and writing were often enforced on ‘uneducated’ cultures, and the spoken history was lost. So too were many important principles and beliefs.

Soon, writing and written texts were the standard for most well developed countries. People wrote books, filled scroll after scroll with text. In days gone by, it was left up to religious orders to scribe texts over and over again, monks and nuns spending days and months writing out copies of important manuscripts like the bible.

Letter writing soon became a daily practice for many of the more educated people of the world. Magazines and newspapers began to fill the shelves as readily as books did, to fulfill the need people had for having images with their written text. People could subscribe to the type of information they wanted to read, forgoing news if they only sought entertainment and adventure. Door to door salesmen would peddle large volumes of encyclopedia as well, offering educational information to people who were too isolated to be able to go to a book store or receive daily newspapers.

The more communication evolved, the more people wanted their own choices and unique options for the information they were exposed to. However, people missed hearing the sound of human voices. Written texts could only offer so much and seemed almost cold to people who wanted to listen to another human being. Magazines were full of photos without having so much text, but to many, it just wasn’t enough.

Radio soon came to realize its entertainment value as well as its ability to share information and news. In the evenings, people would have a radio near their dinner tables or situated in their living rooms and whole families would listen together to news broadcasts or theatrical entertaining adventures of heroes and villains, comedy and humor, similar to what people watch on tvs today. At one point, radio was so well trusted that a single broadcast of War of the Worlds was able to convince millions that America was under attack from aliens.

Television has had its own sway over people for a very long time. Even with the heavy competition that computers offer, tvs are still popular. With new technology ever on the rise, people have fallen in love with moving pictures and imagery attached to the sounds and nuances of human voices and song. Many people put television down for its ability to steal creativity from its audience. However, it remains a tool for entertainment as well as education.

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