Faster and easier communication helps people keep in touch, and is good for business and trade. With better telecommunications , people from different parts of the world can be brought closer together. Click on the hotspots on the map to find photos of people communicating and getting information in different ways. Which people are communicating for fun, and which are communicating as part of their work? From the kinds of communication shown in the photos, which can be used to communicate over short distances or over long distances? If you wanted to communicate with the people in the photos, which place would be the most difficult to contact? Why? Which of these kinds of communication do you use most often? Which of these kinds of communication were not available when your parents were young? How do these kinds of communication make people's lives better? What other ways of communicating can you think of? What changes may happen in the way we communicate in the future?