While modern telecommunications and general literacy have challenged music's monopoly on carrying information, they haven't eliminated that role.
These basic sciences generated modern telecommunications, biotechnology, the computer industry and now the Internet.
The affected region was remote and lacked any modern telecommunication.
A world economy and modern telecommunication and transportation technologies have changed all of that.
And at last- brought at high speed, by modern telecommunications- The Name!
For many years, Bhutan did not have modern telecommunications.
The effort has taken on some urgency because many tools of modern telecommunications were not designed to record sounds for posterity.
That has carried over to the mixing of modern telecommunications and the funeral industry.
However, with modern telecommunications technology, in absentia health care is becoming more common.
Progress in modern telecommunications is often invisible, but enormous.