EVOLUTION OF

COMMUNICATION

COMMUNICATION
is the activity of conveyingmeaningthrough a shared system
ofsignsandsemioticrules.

Communication often occurs through visual, auditory, or

biochemical means.

Human communication is unique for its extensive use of

language.

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
describes the process of conveying meaning in the form of
non-word messages. Examples of nonverbal communication
includehaptic
communication,chronemiccommunication,gestures,body
language,facial expression,eye contact, and how one
dresses.

VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Effective verbal or spoken communication is dependent on a
number of factors and cannot be fully isolated from other
important interpersonal skills such as non-verbal
communication, listening skills and clarification.

Humanlanguagecan be defined as asystemofsymbols and

thegrammars by which the symbols are manipulated.

WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
Three information communication revolutions:
1. Written communication first emerged through the use of
pictographs.
Pictogramswere made in stone.
2. Writing began to appear onpaper, papyrus, clay, wax, etc. with
commonalphabets.
3. Transfer of information through controlled waves
ofelectromagnetic radiation(i.e., radio, microwave, infrared) and
otherelectronic signals.

NON-HUMAN COMMUNICATION
Everyinformation exchangebetween living organisms i.e.
transmission ofsignalsthat involve a living sender
andreceivercan be considered a form of communication;
and even primitive creatures such as corals are competent to
communicate.

Nonhuman communication also includecell signaling,cellular

communication, and chemical transmissions between
primitive organisms likebacteriaand within
theplantandfungal kingdoms.

COMMUNICATION
From our ancestors using non-verbal communication to
convey what they wanted to, then learning to actually say
words or write letters which is called the verbal
communication, to using non-human communication
(animals) to transfer and share knowledge upon other people
from different places, down to the early discovery of
technology which evolved eventually as it reach this
generation.

TECHNOLOGY
is the collection of techniques, methods or processes used in
the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment
of objectives, such as scientific investigation.

Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes,

etc. or it can be embedded in machines, computers, devices
and factories, which can be operated by individuals without
detailed knowledge of the workings of such things.

FIRE
The discovery and utilization of fire, a simpleenergysource
with many profound uses, was a turning point in the
technological evolution of humankind.

TELEPHONE
is atelecommunicationsdevice that permits two or more
users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart
to be heard directly. A telephone convertssound, typically
and most efficiently thehuman voice, into electronic signals
suitable fortransmissionvia cables or other transmission
media over long distances, and replays such signals
simultaneously in audible form to its user.

RADIO
is the radiation (wirelesstransmission) of electromagnetic
signals through the atmosphere or free space.

Information, such as sound, is carried by systematically

changing (modulating) some property of the radiated waves,
such as theiramplitude,frequency,phase, or pulse width.

TELEVISION
is atelecommunicationmedium used for transmitting moving
images and sound. Television can transmit images that
aremonochrome(black-and-white), incolor, or inthree
dimensions.

The nametelevisioncan refer specifically to atelevision set,

atelevision program, or the medium oftelevision
transmission. Television is an iconicmass medium, serving as
a conduit forentertainment,advertisingandnews.

COMPUTER
is a general-purpose device that can beprogrammedto carry out a set
ofarithmeticor logical operations automatically. Since a sequence of
operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one
kind of problem.

Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer andpolymath,

originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the "father
of the computer",he conceptualized and invented the firstmechanical
computerin the early 19th century. After working on his
revolutionarydifference engine, designed to aid in navigational calculations.

PRINTER
is aperipheralwhich makes a persistent human readable
representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media.

This system used a series of metal rods with characters printed on

them and stuck a roll of paper against the rods to print the
characters. The first commercial printers generally used mechanisms
from electric typewritersandTeletypemachines, which operated in a
similar fashion. The demand for higher speed led to the development
of new systems specifically for computer use.

CELLULAR PHONE
mobile phonealso known as acellular phone,is
aphonethat can make and receivetelephone callsover
aradio linkwhile moving around a wide geographic area. It
does so by connecting to acellular networkprovided by
amobile phone operator, allowing access to thepublic
telephone network. By contrast, acordless telephoneis used
only within the short range of a single, private base station.

INTERNET
is a global system of interconnectedcomputer networksthat use the
standardInternet protocol suite(TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide.

It is a network of networksthat consists of millions of private, public, academic,

business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad
array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies.

The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services,

such as the inter-linkedhypertext documents andapplicationsof theWorld Wide
Web(WWW), theinfrastructureto supportemail, andpeer-to-peernetworks
forfile sharingandtelephony.