Human beings begin getting organized into social structures
approximately 10,000 years ago.
The ability to survive
depended on many things but the more information that you had
the better.
Information, however, requires a set of rules to define it so
it can be intrepreted. We call this language .
Language, however, is a very complex concept. What is it exactly and why
are there so many forms of it? Language requires syntax and
convention and definition, whether or not its a computer language
or a spoken language or a written language.
Because language requires rules then it is governed by some kind
of physics. Furthermore, language exists as a conduit through
which information is transmitted, received and processed .
In early times (7000 years ago or so), propogation of culture
required a) an agreed upon set of rules and b) the ability to
archive those rules. Therefore, cultural memory requires a
written language.
Advances in civilization in turn requires a communication network
so that the rules can propogate.
However, communication is quite often imprecise. For example,
can uotranslate this cell phone syntax of text messaging?
Hey, work done, ADIH but I am AAS and IOH. CU @ *$
If you don't know the rules of the above language then the information that is being expressed then causes the parsing of the above expression to become fuzzy
and in more extreme cases it just becomes. incoherent
The rapid propogation of coherent information is a difficult physical challenge and a large understanding of physics and the interactions between waves and
matter must be understood before an efficient communications system can be
fully developed
A brief history of Communications Networks From the Year Less than One to 1900: (Pay attention to key words
coded in red).
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