Role of communications in the Development of Civilized Society

  Human beings are superior to other creatures because of their mental powers not for

the physical strengths. At the primitive stage of civilization human can not talk but communication each other by using 'signs' and 'symbols'. For the very existence ancient men need work in groups, for any sort of collective effort communication IS essential Though the word 'civilization' has different meanings, but here we will focus onthe chronological development of the human society. It can be said that civilization IS the external manifestation of latent potentialities of human.

Communication has enabled us to organize to work in groups and through organization, we have been able to overcome barriers to our existence that are could not have conquered individuallyl s Let us have a look on the different phases of civilization

Fig-6 : Phases of Civilization

If we consider each of the -above phases we will see that development comes the collective endeavour of men. We can't even think of cooperation without communication. Moreover communication has high degree of positive correlation with the cooperation, that is more communication means more cooperation. Thus we can summarize the matter as follows:

Communication and Modern Times : Flourishment rather explosion of technology based communications boost-up the pace of modernization. Without faster and easier communication the term 'globalization' would be an utopian thought. The information superhighway turns the Whole world into a global village. 

 Increase of both inter-country and inter-country communication contributed a lot in the expansion of world economy. In the last decade due to the expansion of communication business activities expanded many times than ever before. 

Education, Health, Cultural and every sector or every sphere of life has been influenced by the explosion of communication. Thus we can conclude that today's civilized society is the result of collective efforts of millions of men over the millionsiof years; contributions of scholars increase the pace of civilization - but  it is communication which played the role of a 'catalyst' and turned the possibilities into realities. ,