CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neolithic, Quipu, Stone Age
10 Oct 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Harold innis media in ancient empires (ch. Marcia ascher and robert ascher civilization without writing (ch. Denise schmandt-besserat earliest precursor of writing (ch. Development of ancient data storage & documentation media. Beginning of history is the beginning of writing. Mark development of humanity by the tools used; eg. iron age, stone age, etc. Use of tools marks humanity as distinctive. Dominated earth because of the tools that we used. Tools are objects that help us accomplish something that we can"t accomplish on our own. Human decided needed tool to communicate information. People began doing this all around the same time. Issues with using this as complex information. One type of data can be counted at once. A: people across the continent of europe began doing this around the same time, as the level of their development began to demand tools to help sort through ideas. A symbol is anything which is shorthand for anything else.
