General Theory of Communications in Development

Main Research questions
- how can we describe the effect of changes in communication medium on social evolution? Can we adequately describe the most recent evolution as the global communications age? Are all ages communications ages, what is the meaning of this attribution?
- can the internet and its users, deliberately or organically, create a map of the evolution of human development and communication ages that placed it at the centre of the 'communications age' (reflexive question)?

Long evolutionary understanding of stages of communication associated with stags of human development, covering communications theory, biology and sociobiology, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, history. A history of communication eras/ages to explain the progression of communication taking centre stage in a globalization, in the communications age.

Theory of stages of human communication and social evolution

Leap 1 (L1). Speech to language - pre-language human communication, and the origin of language (glottogony). 100,000 to 50,000 years ago.

From http://wapedia.mobi/en/Origin_of_language

- Linguists distinguish speech from language, speech produces sounds, language has a syntax.
Language distinguishes homo sapiens from other species on the planet.
- History of the begiining of speech relies on indirect methods, no concrete traces.
- No half-language step in evolution.
- biological evolution - descended larynx
- recursion a common distinction between human and non-human communication, but some exceptions
- Proto-language of ancient hominids - Derek Bickerton - lacking: a fully-developed syntax tense, aspect, auxiliary verbs, etc., and a closed-class (i.e. non-lexical) vocabulary. "The term Hmmmmm has been proposed for the pre-linguistic system of communication used by archaic Homo (beginning with Homo ergaster and reaching the highest sophistification with Homo neanderthalensis. Hmmmmm is an acronym for holistic (non-compositional), manipulative (utterances are commands or suggestions, not descriptive statements), multi-modal (acoustic as well as gestural and mimetic), musical, and memetic. [13]"
- greatest leap from pidgin communication to creole language, hypothesis that mutation to the brain responsible. 100,000 to 50,000 years ago, Africa.

L2: Oral to Written Knowledge (Media 1 (M1)).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing
- Symbols were developed 30,000 years ago.
- Writing 7,000 ago.
- Civilization advanced through transition of pictorial to phonetic writing, combination seen in heiroglyphics.
- to be continued

L3. Dissemination Media.
- Postal services.
M2 - Printing Press, Photography
M3 - Analog Audio - Telegraph, Radio, Telephone
M4 - Television
M5 - Digital - (Internet, cell phone)