My Love Letter to Cosplay and Alison Sander’s Megatrends

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The TED talk videos by Adam Savage, “My Love Letter to Cosplay” and Alison Sander’s “Megatrends” offers insights on how things change and the impact they have on self and communal development. A key trend that has emerged in the recent past with the proliferation of the internet and social media is online conferencing or video calls and live streaming. Video calls and live streaming are transforming how people communicate with others, how the organization engages in meetings, as well as how people entertain themselves and others. I embrace the use of video calls because they offer more substance to the communicative process compared to phone calls which are only auditory or letters and texts which entail just reading. Video calls bring the face-to-face experience that is important in communication. Suggestively, I feel that video calls are among the most important developments in social media. It has made the world a smaller place with people being able to interact in the real-time across the globe.
Recent technological developments such as a virtual reality show that video calling as a means of communication is still advancing and being made better for users. The fact that video calling has become an imperative aspect of the business world also highlights the potential it holds in future communication processes. Social media companies’ and platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Skype have emerged as leaders in the development of video calling technologies. These applications have been effective in increasing interaction between users with different features that influence how people communicate. For instance, Facebook facilitates live videos t...