Television
The item that I choose is what society has called a “Television” set. It comes from the mixed Latin and Greek origin, meaning "far sight”. This box has been used since the 1920's to transmit pictures and audio across great distances. Society has used TV's to spread the news and entertainment to our homes. Many televisions are just regular box-shaped metal based equipment, till signal gets transmitted to them. Most television has parts inside of them, including, tubes, glass, metals, etc. Most television used to be big and bulky, but over many years have become the size of the palm of your hand. They use to be plain but now are bright, flat screen, you have choices of LED, LCD, plasma, and maybe more .Television started off in black and white and transformed into colored in the mid 1900's. When regular program is not schedule to be on, networks (owners of TV “channels”) use commercials to extend air time.
Most people pay money to view television channels in order to watch their favorite shows, movies, news, sports, etc. however, before the early 2000's, many people could watch TV for free using analog wavelength signals. On the downside, society has started to look down a pond television commercials as a bad thing. This is become (in my opinion); people think that there is more commercial time than “normal” programming time. Because of this, many companies have place television programming (commercial-reduced/free) on other forms on media sources.
Many parents think that Television is a waste of time for their children because of all the violence and sex on television that they could be using their time more wisely. In my opinion, television can be neither good nor bad (among any technology really), it is how society uses it.
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