Before Johann Guttenburg developed the printing press in 1437, news traveled by word of mouth. This meant that information was slow to reach the public and that details changed as news spread from one person to the next. Printed matter, such as newspapers, made it possible for information to be gathered in a central office and for news to be written more accurately(准确). In 1844 Samuel Morse made a system of sending coded messages through electric wires perfect, founding an early form of long-distance communication. The work of communications was developed in 1858 through the work of Julius von Reuter, who made newspapers reach different countries by telegraphing. With each of these developments, the public wondered at the cleverness of the communications pioneers and asked, “What will they think of next?”
　　“They” thought of plenty. Alexander Graham Bell had the idea of passing speech by electrical impulses and invented the first telephone in 1876. The invention of the “wireless” by Gugliemo Marconi in 1895 made the way for modern-day radio transmission. V.K.Zworykin worked on one of the first televisions in 1928.
　　Communications reached new heights when televisions were mass produced in the 1950s. In 1962 the first communication satellite, made people see live broadcast from anywhere in the world. Underground and underwater cables also send on programs from one area to another. Telecommunications and computer networking are of big advances of our times and mean even greater developments to come.

在朱恩•盖特伯格于1437年推出印刷传媒业以前，新闻通过口说传达，这意味着信息到达公众的速度很慢，而且在从人到人的传播过程中，新闻细节会发生改变。印刷媒介，如报纸，使新闻集中收集到信息中心并且更加准确地记录下来成为可能。1844年，塞缪尔•莫斯对通过电线发送编码信息的系统进行了完善，建立了早期的长途通讯方式。这种通讯系统由于朱利斯•凡•路特的工作而得到发展，它使报纸新闻通过电报的方式传达到不同的国家。对每一项这样的发展，人们都会对传媒业先锋的聪明才智感到惊奇，不禁要问“下一步他们又会想出什么新方法？”。
　他们想得很多。亚历山大•格兰汉姆•贝尔想出了通过电脉冲传话的主意，并在1876年发明了首部电话；1895年顾葛列莫•马可尼发明的"无线电”则为现代电台广播奠定了基础；而V.K.沃尔金在1928年开始搞电视。
　　当1950年代电视机被批量生产时，传媒业达到了一个新的高度；1962年出现的首颗通讯卫星使世界上任何地方的人民都能看到现场直播；地下和水底电缆也可以将节目从一个地方传递到另一个地方。 电子通讯和计算机网络是我们这个时代一项巨大进步，并意味着更伟大发展即将来临。