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Want to know more about the history of information and communication? Check out this sophisticated video that features monkeys throwing poop at each other! ...We promise, it's actually educational.
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No Well every so often humans try to pin down
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exactly what makes us different from animals At first we
- 00:09
thought it might be too well using But then jane
- 00:12
goodall watched a bunch of chimps figure out how to
- 00:14
make little termite shish kebabs So that was out Humans
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have also theorized that we differ from animals in that
- 00:21
animals don't waste time with warfare But while chimpanzees do
- 00:25
that to admittedly there's less blowing stuff up in chimp
- 00:29
wars But those guys do you go at each other
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Termites probably look forward to these chimp wars because it
- 00:34
gives them a break from being shish kebab What One
- 00:37
current theory is that the main difference between us and
- 00:40
our friends from the animal persuasion is that we communicate
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really well Well sure animals can communicate make noises have
- 00:48
specific body language and can even produce chemicals that communicate
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things to other animals Like how bees communicate nearly everything
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with the release of pheromones Well how did the worker
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bees No It's timeto polish the queen's crown while she
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just squirt some pheromones into the air and her will
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is done Or if you know something like that so
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there's no denying that the animal kingdom does have a
- 01:09
wide array of communication tools at its disposal but they
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don't write novels do they A dog is more likely
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to two on a book then write one right animals
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also don't record music or text their friends when it's
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way too late just because they're bored Well this unit
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is about how humans have invented new and more impressive
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tools to communicate their ideas from cave paintings Teo you
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know skype when people talk about the history of communication
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it tends to go something like this in the dawn
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of time and invented written language and became civilized Then
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he wrote shakespeare in the golden age of writing stuff
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and since then it's been a downhill slide which will
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end in the devolution of human speech l o l
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in the future we'll only talk with emojis at which
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point we might as well go back to being animals
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again But we don't believe that story We think the
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history of communication is about new technologies that have allowed
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more people to communicate more ideas much faster and more
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easily and overall it's been a pretty fantastic thing despite
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those people who choose to instagram every piece of food
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they eat Communication technologies have undergone a series of revolutions
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throughout human history which have improved our ability to share
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information The way we share information shapes everything from international
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trade to the writing of great literature to the way
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we think and act and that's no small potatoes it's
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giant potatoes In fact we would take a picture of
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them and post it But we just ripped on people 00:02:35.095 --> [endTime] who do that
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