Modern people love to watch television. Before the advent of tvs, people would listen to each other for entertainment. Not every person in the world has the ability to fill their minds with the creativity that causes a person to feel thrills and chills while listening to a story. Many people can’t read either, so listening to stories being told and seeing moving images on tvs is an especially wonderful privilege for them.

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.

Many cultures once relied on stories and tales from elders to pass down information. These cultures suffered greatly when they were conquered by more ‘educated’ civilizations that brought in the written word. Conquering nations as a rule impart their own form of education upon the conquered people they subjugate. Societies that had no form of writing soon lost their traditional tales and stories and the very morals and principles that their beliefs were based on.

It wasn’t too long before most developed countries relied on the written word and subsequent scrolls and documents full of text to store information and share it with others. Printing used to involve monks or nuns taking months to transcribe a manuscript or document, writing page after page of text all day long. This was one of the only ways to produce, for example, multiple copies of the bible.

Soon people began to send letters to each other on a daily basis. Envelopes and cheaply made paper, stamps, all became a regular part of sharing information. Newspapers, magazines and other serials were made available to the public, making it easier for people to pick and choose the kind of information they received. At one time in history, people would sell volumes of encyclopedia door to door, bringing educational information to people who were isolated in remote areas.

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.

That was about the time that radio was developed as a form of communication. Not only could it bring in news, weather and sports, but radio was also used for entertainment. Families gathered around their old radios and listened to theatrical audio displays with very detailed sound effects, much the same way people do now around tvs. They were riveted listening to their favourite adventures in a way that would surprise modern children and television addicts.

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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