Effects Of Communication Technology On Local Communities
The Rural Electrification Administration (REA) was established to devise a long-term solution to the seemingly intractable problem of extending electricity to rural Americans during the New Deal. As electricity becomes more common in rural areas, so does automobiles and telephones. However, because of high cost of electricity, cars and phones were far more common on farms than electricity; thirty-three percent of farms had a car and forty percent had a telephone, but less than ten percent had electric power by the end of the 1920s.
New technologies for communication purposes that are affecting local communities are phones, cell phones, and computers.
Computers have been around for about 60 years. The first computer was invented in the late 1940s.
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