My life with Radio!

Hi everyone my name is Isabel Lopez and I am a communications major. I am originally from Panama. I like to be aware of the progress in technology as well as always seeking for new electronic toys. This is a part of my everyday life, I always like being up top date with the latest technology news.

The word spins by the second and technology improves by the second as well. Now days we even have video calling services and wireless devices, but lets go back a couple of decades when the radio was the latest invention and was in its prime. The radio was the first device that let us know about what was going on in the world and one of the most important media devices still used today. Without the radio the world of communications would not be the one we have today, since everything was handled and transmitted through radio. As we know the radio has been around for somewhat 100 years now and in my opinion it will continue to be a major asset in the communications industry. We use this media everyday. What is the first thing we do when we get in our cars? (Of course after fastening our seatbelts) we turn our radios on, whether it is to listen to the news or even listen to music, we would not go a day without the radio in our everyday routine and it would be very hard to adjust to a non-radio day, week, month and year eventually.

For example, I use the radio every single day. When I get in to my car or wake up in the morning I listen to the radio. Some of my friends back at home they use the radio to express their thoughts about various topics. My family to be honest they only use it to listen to music or to entertain themselves; if they want to listen to the news they will watch it on TV.  In the case of my grandmother, I have noticed that the only music she listens to comes from the radio, even though I gave her an iPod with songs that she likes, she told me that she prefers her radio. Some people like me will still use the radio and at the same time will get new technological toys to be more updated, but in the case of my grandmother she only knows the radio as her communication tool, like she got stuck in the 1930’s.

My thoughts on the future days for the radio are that it will continue to be what it is today and despite all the great inventions that we have now days, it will stand besides them as an essential part of communications and technology overall. Also, I believe that the radio will be used by people of all ages, because it is easier to use and people of my age are raised with the radio around them. In the case of elderly people, they would also use the radio even more, because it is the most popular way of knowing what is going on around the world, because for them is what they grew up with and it will be easier to familiarize with.