By III. HAK - Bezauer Wirtschaftsschulen

69 year old Mr Mohr from Dornbirn gives us a statementto his positiv and negativ experiences withthe new media and how it was when life becameincreasingly technologized.How has the TV changed your life?My life has changed only slightly. The TV was mainlyused for watching sports. But not everybody had aTV, so we went to friends, to drink a few beers andwatch sports together.televisionWhen did you hear of a TV first?In 1957 I have had heard of it. Certainly,a lot of TVs were mainly standingin the window of the televisionshops.Was it a useful invention?Yes, certainly the receiving was bad and the picturewas not so good as today. Before the TV we listen tothe sports world championship via Radio. Since theTV we have also a picture with the sound.When did your family buy the first television set?My family bought the first TV in 1964.Do you remember your first film that you have seen?The detective film or rather the series “steel net” wasa real hit. No one could sleep well after the film, buteveryone had to see it.phone/mobile phoneWhen did you first hear of a phone / mobile phone?When I was 17 years old, I first heard of the phone.In our house came the TV in 1960. The phone wasnever really important for me. I just get used to it thisyear and I needed quite a long time to find out howto handle this new technology.InternetWhen did you first heard of the internet?The net was not even in my time. And I have done notso much this day. Only since my son has told me someof the net, the internet come into our house.How has your life changed since the internet?My life hasn’t changed. I don’t use the internet veryoften. I only write some mails and look at the news.Otherwise I don’t need and use the internet.What has your life changed?The camera has changed a lot. First there were slides,then the black and white film up to the digital cameras.Did you know?in 2010, 78 %of 30 MillionGerman peoplefrom 14 yearsused the netto maintaincontacts!Media todayBy Pamela Nenning and Saskia EichkornNowadays young people aregrowing up with television,mobile phones and the Internet.But to many of them it isnot clear that all this was not takenfor granted a few years ago. Itis only 80 years ago since the firsttelevision came onto the market.This means that our grandparentswere growing up without suchdevices, whereas the youth of todaywere raised by television andfrom the age of three sit in frontof the television every day. As soonas they attend elementary school,many have a mobile phone. Buteven that did not exist 60 yearsago. Many teenagers can’t imaginea life without a mobile phoneand always take it with them.The Internet as we know it todayis only 40 years old. Many olderpeople do not even know whatit is used for. But the children ofthis generation are learning fromearly age on how to use the net.“Googling instead of looking it upin the dictionary” is the motto. Themedia world has grown extremelyfast in the last 100 years. Manyof the inventions have changedour lives and make it of course easier.However, we are moving inan unknown future because thecontact with the new media willsoon be inevitable in our society.picture: Saskia Eichkorn iPhone4SDid you know?Martin Cooperdeveloped thefirst functionalmobile phone!5