The Global Internet and Language

When mail and communication services such as telegraphs came onto the scene, the world shrunk significantly. We were now able to communicate with anyone in the world in a reasonable amount of time. This meant that information and stories were able to shared with much more ease as well as languages. Flash forward to the twenty first century and we have the internet which made the world the size of a block. You can now message people or even use internet phone services to see them as if they were sitting right there next to you. We have instant access to people and hordes of information. Though, it seems like the information is not used all that much but that is a completely different story which I may get into later. With more people being online, it is becoming more important to break down language barriers. The way to do that is for people to either learn the other languages or have the computer programs translate what the other person is saying. Skype, the internet phone company has finally ventured out into the territory of translating what the other person is saying over the internet phone. It is looking like the improvements are making it much more seamless and pretty soon language difficulties and barriers will be a thing of the past.