Comment on the cartoon The Evolution Of Communication from the Denver Post

Comment on the cartoon The Evolution Of Communication from the Denver Post

There are five men walking from the left to the right hand side and each of them is busy with words. On the left in the Stone Age he uses a stone and chisels the first written word. The second man is working with the first printing machine in the Middle Ages. Then the development of the media of communication is illustrated in three more steps: the mass publication of books, followed by e-mail and twitter in our modern time. The cartoon links communication over the whole history of mankind, and shows how communication changed through the centuries. Modern man uses only a limited number of characters, he has no more to say. Today it is only tweet,tweet while on the climax of mass publication people really could read whole books with many more letters. So the cartoonist critizises our modern communication, describing it as poor and limited. I think he's right because we use a huge number of abbreviations such as: Lol,Yolo or MfG. In addition we don't address people in e-mails anymore or we don't make complete or correct sentences. So I agree completely with the message of the cartoonist and I think it is a well drawn cartoon.