Old Communication Technologies

This weeks’ lecture covered old communication technologies. We discussed a timeline of communication history stretching way back to the first forms of the alphabet and rock art from many different countries around the world. The differences between the alphabets of different regions were covered slightly including the native flora and fauna found in the rock art. The works of Benjamin Walters was also brought up and the age of mechanical reproduction. The basic timeline of communication technology was outlined giving brief information about print, telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, cinema, television and video. Other topics included in the lecture were the love vs. fear of technology and the digital reproduction of equipment, most recently the Blue Ray vs. High Definition. Semiotics was one of the more complex and confusing subjects that was touched upon.