Old Communication Technologies

The lecture opened with a discussion about Jean-Luc Goddard's movie Alphaville. I had a bit of difficulty understanding the film at first, but this discussion allowed me to get my head around it a bit better.

The lecture mainly focused on older ways that humans communicated before technology existed and how we have evolved since then. We looked at the history of different types of communication such as tribal practises, print, the telegraph pole, telephone, cinema, radio, television and even ancient means of communication such as rock art, hieroglyphics and body painting.

The lecture made it clear that we have adopted various techniques from older forms of communication which have helped mold the way in which communication exists today.