The Shannon-Weaver Model

The Shannon-Weaver Model is a complex design that seems easy from a user's perspective. How often do you think about how your cellphone just called another cellphone, on a different carrier, landline, or internationally? It's easy for us to do but how does it all happen in real-time no matter how far apart in the world users are. Essentially there is a sender and a receiver for information. But between them are transmitters and receivers that make it all happen "behind the scenes."

A new communication model needs to be written when new forms of communication are created. There used to be telephone cables used as internet lines, now we have Fios cables for that to increase speed and not tie up other lines of communication. We used to always need to be plugged into a network, now we can do it wirelessly. New forms of communication require new lines of communication to carry more data, faster, and more efficiently. i.e. FaceTime on the iPhone 4. It needs a wireless network to do so, but will something take the place of wi-fi so we can make face-to-face video calls whenever we want regardless of a wi-fi connection? No matter the advancements that will happen with technology, there will always need to be a sender and receiver.