EOTO Technology Presentation Reaction 7

     During the EOTO presentations of Communication Technologies, I learned a lot from my peers about different kinds of technologies. 

    Most of the technologies presented, while just as important, were those I am familiar with such as ipods, cd's, and other well known technologies. 

    The technology that stuck out most to me was Petroglyphs. The reason I believe Petroglyphs stuck out to me was because I was just not expecting to see it presented as a communication technology. Although it is a communication technology, I think I speak for many when I say that when we think of "technology", we often are thinking of devices such as phones, computers, ipods, etc. 

    Petroglyphs are considered a communication technology because before we had what we now consider "technology", people would use petroglyphs to communicate with others. Similar to how we use our phones to send a text to someone today. 

    

    When we think of Petroglyphs as a communication technology, it's amazing to see how far we have come. While Petroglyphs were a great asset back then, people today would never communicate with one. Today when I want to communicate with someone, I send them a text. To do so, it takes about 10-15 seconds. To communicate with a Petroglyph, you would need to find a stone to chisel at the rock with. By the time you chiseled enough to reveal your message, you would have dedicated a pretty significant amount of time to do so. 

    

    We wouldn't use Petroglyphs today because 1, we don't need to, they're outdated and 2, it would be so inconvenient to us. I don't know many people with the patience to sit there and chisel their message into rock. 

    During these EOTO communication technology presentations, I grew very impressed with how far we have come with technology and was impressed with what communication technology looked like with technologies such as Petroglyphs before "Technology" as we know it started evolving.