Technology
TechnologyWhether you're a technophobe, a technogeek, or something in between, you have to be living in total isolation not to be communicating on some level through technology.
The phone, mobile, fax, voice mail, E-mail, video and audio conferencing, the net, are all pieces of technology that people use to communicate through in order to reach someone else: the technology is the interface between one real live human being and another some distance away.
These are supposed to be technological aids to communication.
Most of the time when people use a piece of technology to communicate with they think that they are received at the other end as though it's them.
It isn't.
It's a representation of themselves.
Voices, images, words, get squeezed down an electronic device and comes out the other end as a reasonably accurate facsimile or an inaccurate distortion or any number of possibilities, none of which are the real person.
When people understand the effect that technology has on their communication they can make a far greater impact by taking charge of the technology and letting it support them, rather than the technology running the show.
Technology Skills and Training
