What do telecommunication technologies mean for us? (Part 1) Hello, friends! Today I would like to share some my reflections (my thoughts) about that's what. Today we all together live in amazing time – it is the 21st century, the century of very rapid development of scientific and technological progress, the rapid growth the of the number of new technologies, increase of knowledge volume and information in general (on the whole). Every day new discoveries are made by the scientists, new inventions are invented by the inventors, the latest technologies are developed, which are able totally (completely) change our present world, making it better, more convenient (more comfortable), more practical and more adapted to people (humans). And if earlier, something like 100-200 years ago, it all already was, science and technology also developed, but now this process is much accelerated. And this acceleration has become possible due to development of new technologies, especially technologies for information transfer (transmit) and communication. That's what I mean. As soon as some new way of information recording and transferring (method of recording and transmitting information) was invented, every new discovery and invention was recording and transferring in this new, faster than before, way. At their turn, other pundits and talanted inventors get an opportunity earlier become acquainted (familiarize) with these knowledge and inventions, and therefore they could earlier discover their own discoveries and invent their own inventions etc.It was something like chain reaction. If earlier, in ancient time, all knowledge was transmitted orally from one scholar to another one, when they met to each other personally. Later, after book printing was invented, in order to know (to find out) about any scientst's (scholar's) invention/discovery it was enough to get acquainted with his scientific work without meeting him personally, all it was demanded was to send him this book (scientific work). (...to be continued Part 2)