CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Media Bias, Stone Age
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The history of photography changes rapidly ! Commercialization is one of the major economic changes. Digitization is also a big economic change ! Dimensional tolerances: allowable discrepancies in any sports. Com- for the latin meaning with or together with ! Communication is an exchange of information and messages. You have to engage in communication, it is active. Western culture recognizes the meaning of a stop light red, yellow, green. Sign is a representation of something to the world. 8,000-3,000 bce neolithic (new stone age) ! 3,000-300 bce ancient civilizations of mesopotamia, egypt and the aegean (greece) ! Cuneiform in mesopotamia and hieroglyphics in egypt both originated at the same time in. Clay tokens were used in 8000-6000 bce. Cuneiform shifted from pictogram to abstract as they gathered more information and had to write more. Economy of effort demanded a reduction in the number of strokes, and the remnants of pictorial writing disappeared.
