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Technologies to consider in 2020

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New technologies refer to all the new media that, in recent years, have facilitated the flow of information (internet, digital video disc [DVD], portable computers and all the technological devices that are used to produce, develop and bring communication).  With regard to the media, new technologies have enabled digital newspapers, Internet advertising, music and video broadcasts without the need for radio or sound equipment, as well as communication. snapshot between people from different countries with a much lower cost than that of conventional telephone services. Talking about new media means referring to the Internet, electronic media and all forms of communication derived from these media, which have revolutionized information and communication processes as they grow by leaps and bounds throughout the world.  Although in Colombia the history of new media is quite short, its enormous influence has already begun to be felt and understood. Before they had the enormous im

Democracy in the middle of the war

The United States has never delayed a presidential election. But there was one instance in which some wondered if the country should: when the nation was embroiled in the Civil War. The 1864 election was the second U.S. presidential election to take place during wartime (the first was during the War of 1812). Still, it wasn’t the logistics of carrying out a wartime election that made some people want to postpone it. Rather, it was the fact that by the spring of 1864, the Union had no clear path to victory, and many feared President Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t win reelection. Today, conventional wisdom holds that incumbent presidential candidates are more likely to win reelection, especially during wartime. Franklin Delano Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term during World War II, and Richard Nixon delayed Vietnam peace talks because he thought prolonging the Vietnam War would help his reelection chances in 1972 (and indeed, he won a second term). Yet in 1864, this wasn’t a comm