Communications biography

The history of communication technologies (media and appropriate inscription tools) have evolved in tandem with shifts in political and economic systems, and by extension, systems of power.

Communication can range from very subtle processes of exchange to full conversations and mass communication. The history of communication itself can be traced back since the origin of speech circa 100,000 BCE.^[1] The use of technology in communication may be considered since the first use of symbols about 30,000 years BCE.

Among the symbols used, there are cave paintings, petroglyphs, pictograms and ideograms. Writing was a major innovation, as well as printing technology and, more recently, telecommunications and the Internet.

Primitive times

Human communication was initiated with the origin of speech approximately 100,000 BCE.^[1] Symbols were developed about 30,000 years ago.

The imperfection of speech allowed easier dissemination of