In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, the author claims that the Internet is changing for the worse the way we communicate and retain our messages. Carr states that in 1882, a man with failing vision bought a typewriter, and in using this device his style of communication changed dramatically. Carr is correct that technology is changing the way we as humans process information and communicate our messages, but the Internet is just the natural next stage in this development. All communication starts a message, but a message requires some form of a language, be it through voice, hand signals, pictures, electronic transmission, or writing. Throughout history communication has changed with the advent of new technologies as mankind continues to develop new ways to send more complex messages farther, faster, and more efficiently, while a message can now be anything from a simple greeting to the complete Wikipedia database or beyond. Communication has thousands of years of history, and in this history different methods of communication have developed, such as writing and …show more content…
One of earliest known forms of writing system is cuneiform, as stated by Peter Daniels and Williams Bright in their book The World's Writing Systems; examples of this script, which comes from Mesopotamia, can be dated back to around 3200 BCE (Daniels and Bright 1996). Scribes would carve words in stone that would last through the ages, or write on chunks of clay using a reed stylus to create edge-shaped marks that formed their writings. Cuneiform eventually gave way to the Akkadian script, a simplified version of the former (Daniels and Bright 1996). However, transporting stone and clay slabs was impractical, and sending someone else as a runner with your message was