Providing sufficient international communication
- Offering adequate international communication
Context
In some ways, however, enhanced technological horsepower is a mixed blessing as expectations or desires can be created for things unattainable or inappropriate, and established natural and social systems threatened by new patterns of behaviour. Further, effective means and a greater amount of communication do not automatically result in a better quality of what is being communicated or in a sympathetic relationship between communicator and audience. As the barriers of distance dissolve they can starkly expose any remaining mental barriers, cultural misunderstandings or prejudices, intolerance or disrespect which, because they seem nearer, may also be exaggerated. Under the justification of offering entertainment or novelty, people or cultures can be portrayed in a distorted or incomplete way.