Evolving Times!

     Most people who were alive in 1984 would have never expected technology to advance at such a rapid pace.  On the right there is a picture of a 1984 Macintosh computer. Gathered from, http://www.old-computers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp

A Macintosh computer from 1984
            

TID=5658&OB=DESC.  Very few people who purchased this type of computer ever imagined a day when they could access the internet much less access the internet by phone, I-pods, or even laptops.  Owners of this computer were just glad to be able to own a computer where they were able to make changes on different pages of a document without having to retype pages all time like they had to with the typewriter.  Please view the timeline of technology evolution below.
http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/events-timelines/12-technology-timeline.htm
   From this we can see that technology has and will continue to change at lighting speeds.  No one ever imagined that by 2013 almost everything would be conducted electronically from shopping to banking.  Its hard to believe but today internet can be accessed from anywhere in the world, even the poorest nations have access to the internet.  
    The advancements technology has been making has made a journalists job more difficult because the journalist must make sure they are able to beat there competition the punch.  Just imagine in the past century we have gone through such technological challenges to getting the news out, originally it started off as word of mouth, than the printing press was created, followed by news being spread through film and Radio, than through television the biggest break through coming with computers and the internet search engines making information instant to all, how the media adapted thorough all this has been pretty remarkable but when you look at it more closely we can see that some of these technologies such as the internet has made it harder for journalists to keep there jobs because more news papers and magazines are starting to disappear due to the fact that the same information is available through the internet for free.  
     Why would someone want to pay for the same information they can access for free?  Sites have realized this and today they have started charging for their services but people are just getting the information from other sources.  Such as social media networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instant Messenger.  This means if journalists want to be successful they must be telling their readers something they cannot just get for free somewhere else making it more challenging then when only print versions existed.