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PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 17, 2015) Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kiana Raines, assigned to Pre-commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), a native of San Diego, takes a Navy Advancement Exam while deployed aboard aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). Washington is operating in Southern California waters, preparing to deploy around South America as a part of Southern Seas 2015. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Bryan Mai/Released)
Nothing too fancy...
Draft of a stand alone communication form. We photocopy the response section so that needed to be done in white.
CORAL SEA (July 3, 2019) Aviation Structural Mechanic 2nd Class Jason Deaton, front, from Flowery Branch, Georgia, and Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class William Smith, from Panama City, Florida, inspect aircraft hydraulic fluid in Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department’s hydraulics workcenter aboard the Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Janweb B. Lagazo)
Modern communication or maybe more like that old Zeppelin song...Communication breakdown.
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Times change, and so do the technologies we associate with them. Though these poles are probably less than a couple decades old, the utility pole alignment along Portland's North Mississippi Avenue has been here at least since the late 19th Century. In that era, communication was entirely wire-based. No pole? No telegraph, no phone, and (far later) limited television service. These new long-distance communication mediums helped bring about disruptive change to urban society, enabling families and companies both to spread across wider fields of geography than ever before.
Then, of course, this was all new and expensive. Telegrams were pay-to-play in a way that would be familiar to those whose text-messaging services today are not a free addition to their phone plan. Telephones, when they became available, were often shared by an entire multi-family building. Cable television did not really take off until the 1980s and took years to become adopted wide-spread. Yet cutting edge technologies permeated, and became so common that by the Millennium, nearly every going business had multiple phone and fax lines, and nearly every apartment had cable TV hooked up. It was just considered normal, considerd the way things were.
Change -- rapid change, even -- has once more struck us. The other day I was reading a statistic somewhere to the effect of over half of all cell phones activated in the United States are so-called smart phones with access to the Internet. 3G (and eventually 4G) wireless Net access now blankets most of the populated regions of the country. Somewhere else I picked up that phone companies are experiencing difficulties because many people no longer opt to have a land-line hard-wired phone at all. In point-of-fact, as of last year, I converted a small business from a conventional land line operation to a fully mobile communications system.
What do we need all these wires for?
Well they're not going away that soon I suppose. We still have to get power from somewhere, for one. And for another, much of our Internet access, including mine, comes through the same cables once used to pipe television into our buildings. Yet the poles are a lot more naked these days, as fewer and fewer wires seem to be propped up on oversized toothpicks that point to the sky.
This pole, however, has found a way to stay true to its original communicative function, as have many others across the city. From as high as the reach of the tallest person's finger-tips all the way to the eye level of a Pekinese, it is covered with cheap paper handbills announcing concerts, garage sales, art exhibits, lectures, parties, and the like. The poles have begun to explode their long-time function as a community billboard. Who says the era of the telegraph pole is long gone?
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New computer at the Community Communication Center at Fantsuam Foundation in rural Nigeria.
June 2010
Photo from Fantsuam Foundation
From the world's smallest Flickr photo stroll (yeah, just the two of us). Visiting downtown Norcross, Georgia
Communication Studies on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on December 7, 2016. (Jay Grabiec)
Photo: Paul Courtright.
Published in: Community Eye Health Journal Vol. 20 No. 64 DECEMBER 2007 www.cehjournal.org
Abandoned long ago, these telegraph poles still stand along the former Rock Island Railroad right of way in Scott County Iowa.
A kinetic sculpture by Israeli artist Yaacov Agam titled Communication X9 at the street level against the background of the Smurfit-Stone Building,150 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. (Recropped)
Tenuous Link: red, yellow and green.