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Cave Art Pictograms

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Some weeks ago, I was video chatting with my friends off my iPhone. When my grandma walked in, she stared at me. She seemed amazed at the fact that a tiny, 4-inch device is capable of doing marvelous things, such as letting me video chat with anyone at any given moment. To a teenager now, being able to do things such as video chat is normal. To people like my grandma, it’s revolutionary. Currently I have an iPhone 5, an Xbox 360, and a laptop; I am a strong believer that communication is very important to us. It is clear that everyone in today’s society people use some sort of communication. Communication has been around for as long as we can remember and it has affected society drastically. According to Webster’s Dictionary, communication …show more content…

Pictograms was the next step in the evolution of communication. The difference between rock painting and pictograms was that rock art would show an event, but pictograms would tell a story about a concept, or event. Pictograms has been around since 6,000 BC and has been used by many cultures.
The next type of communication was ideograms. According to “The Origin of the Typographic Form,” the term "ideogram" is commonly used to describe logographs in writing systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters. Ideograms are a graphical symbol that represent an idea. For example, if you saw a circle, it could represent the sun with abstract concepts such as daytime, light, and God of Sun. Where as compared to cave art or pictograms, you will be incapable of understanding the concept. Ideograms have universal ideas and was used very often around 5000 …show more content…

It’s hard to believe how drastic the cell phone has evolved. It’s hard to believe that when the first cell phone was made it was only capable of making simple phone calls, only if you have signal. Today, phones such as the iPhone 6 and the Galaxy S5, are capable of doing infinite things, such as texting, long distant call, GPS, locate anything, surf the web, download countless of apps filled with games, video chat, and many more. Today’s cell phone could even speak to you, understand you, and whatever you command, it does. Yes the cell phone is such a power tool; however, it didn’t start off like that. When the cell phone was accessible for the US, people were so amused at the fact that a simple device can make short distant calls. According to the FCC, “In spite

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