Entertainment Technology Enrichment

What do I mean by “technology has improved over generations?” In addition, "what kind of technology do I mean?" Well, in my previous blog I discussed how technology has help human being communicate more rapidly, and have accessible sources to communicate without speaking to each other face to face. Technology can be broken down into many branches but I will only break it into two branches: Wikipedia.com defines it as “the relationship that society has with its tools and crafts, and to what extent society can control its environment.” The tools and machine human utilize to make life easier such as using machines to cook or stay warm instead of trying to create fire with rocks and sticks. Other examples can be using vehicles to travel faster and easier, also the use of e-mails, fax, letters have improve instead of having a messenger carrier travel to certain destination, and the developments of weapons versus stick and rock fighting (although this is not a good way to settle down indifferences). The second branch can be defined as technology dealing with “utilizing manufactured or created components to enhance or make possible any sort of entertainment experience (Wikipedia).” For example, the interaction of sounds, scenes, light, visual effects, etc that can make a video game, movie or even the Opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics incredibly entertaining.

In my previous blog I meant the second kind of technology I had explain earlier and I am going to continue using this definition for my explanation of technology entertainment in live

performances such as musical broadways versus films. In addition, how class and culture are affected by entertainment technology. Looking at the technology of past decades, we have seen the entertainment technology change particularly in the film industry. Film technology has gone from silent films created from individual still frames to the animated computer graphics we see today. In early history, people saw live performances that were sketchy and settings that were not so dynamic. For example, the performance of The Phantom of the Opera has develop from silent black and white to color live sound effects, from live performance to movie media. Phantom of the Opera has been the “Winner of seven 1988 Tony® Awards including Best Musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterwork is more than the longest-running musical in Broadway history.(http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com/new_york/)” As time exceed there is technology improvement in Phantom of the Opera Broadway/film.
As we see the progress of technology, we also see the changes in culture. Entertainment is a big part of our social system and the way social classes separate themselves. As we witness increase in technology we also see a decrease in the division of entertainment. What was remote for lower class is now accessible and what was reserved for higher class early in history has vanished. One of the main examples is the movie industry and the recently popularized Broadway musical made into major motion pictures. What was once reserved for the higher class in the form of luxurious theater productions is suddenly, because of the technology of the movie industry, widely available for everyone who can afford a night at the movies.
Nowadays people can relate to each other, basically the ideologies we hold as a society, entertainment is a big part of culture and movies are becoming universal. Even in the third world countries, India's movie industry produces the most movies in the world and they are third world. What I mean is that technology is changing our culture in the way we value entertainment and in the way we relate to other social classes because of it and even economically.