Radio

Everyday on the way to school, I am either listening to music or news on the radio.  I liked listening to this topic because radio is apart of my everyday life.  I have to thank the very smart person who created the radio, Telsa but Fessenden for making radio a mass medium.  Instead of radio just being a way to share music, it became a way to invest millions of people.  The radio served as a watchdog to citizens, it was a way to be entertained by fiction, or comedy, etc.  I really liked how I was taught that every medium has a phase where it steadily increases, then rapidly increases then plateaus and finally steadily decreases.  Radio steadily increased in the 1920s but its period when it rapidly increased was the Golden Age during the 1930s.  I believe radio was so popular because people were depressed from the war and Great Depression that they loved to smile and laugh at the radio.  Of course though, every glory comes to an end.  In this case, a fascinating TV was sold and the more TVs sold, the less radios.  TV could do everything radio could do, but music.  Music is what has kept radios going.  Now a days, I think radios are most popular in cars than a radio in the house.  However, I think Internet is demassifing radio too because we now have Spotify and Pandora.  Instead of listening to annoying people ramble on the radio more than you hear music, you can pick which every song you wish.  I really like how we are learning about the history of technology because my generation has grown up to technology.  I feel when I can relate to what I am learning, I am more interested.