Communicaiton

Communication is derived from the Latin word Communicare (to share)

Exchange of information between two entities is what we understand communication as. Everything that has existed, exists or will exist communicates. Our existence relies on communication.

Where does communication start? It starts with in ourselves. Each of the cells in our body communicates at a very large and un-quantifiable level.  Communication has played the most vital role in cornicing us to what we are today.

Noam Chomsky, a prominent proponent of discontinuity theory, argues that a single chance mutation occurred in one individual in the order of 100,000 years ago, instantaneously installing the language faculty (a component of the mind-brain) in "perfect" or "near-perfect" form. Thus helping us to evolve at a higher rate. Around 3000 BCE we were using cuneiforms (Capsule) as form of written communication which was a pictorial representation.

Let’s look at a brief history of our current telecommunication.

Man’s first attempts at distance communication were extremely limited when compared to modern days distance communication. They were using fire, smoke and early form of drums to communicate with their neighboring clans.  They were decoded according to the patterns of sound to understand danger. Around 6^th Century during heights of Persian power, Cyrus the great couldn’t communicate with in his own empire as it was too vast. He was the first man to be credited for setting up post office in order to communicate with his empire.

Around 5^th century BCE Persians and Syrians were using pigeons for communication. They realized pigeons have this ability to find their way back to their nests. So they use to take them to far lands and send messages back to home land. Then came the Optical telegraph in the year 1790. By March 1876 Alexander Graham Bell had invented the telephone. Invention of telephone changed the way we communicate forever and it was just the beginning that led mankind to take the big leap.

We never looked back since then, Modern day’s communication is at a whole new unprecedented level which has bought us to the foothill of the giant communicating mountain. In September of 1899, Guglielmo Marconi ushered in the era of practical mobile radio communication with his historical radio telegraph transmissions from a ship in New York Harbor to the Twin Lights in Highlands New Jersey. His first transmission covered the arrival of Admiral Dewey from Manila, and soon thereafter, coverage of the Americas Cup races was provided as well. This was accomplished with high energy, wideband pulses of radio noise, created using a spark generator coupled to an antenna. The signal was received with a similar antenna attached to a fascinating device known as a “coherer,” a tube in which metallic particles were caused to cohere to one another by the presence of the radio signal. The reduced resistance of the coherer in this state allowed the radio signal to be detected, after which a mechanical “tapper” returned the particles to their original state. Each telegraphic symbol was represented by a rapid series of these spark-generated signals, which was detected as an audible tone. It’s this iconic event that paved way to our current cellular or mobile technology that has given us the world in our palms.

We have moved from pigeons to POP 3. It took just about 500 years to change from nothing to everything. So what is it that we can expect in the next 500 years? I don’t think we as a race are ready to even imagine that yet. We probably will have chips engraved in our brain so we could communicate with anyone around the world without any device. Can you imagine the possibilities? I leave that to your imagination.