A Brief History Of Human Communication

From orality to literacy and back again

Illustration of the oldest known burial in Africa, communicating across 80,000 years that this child was loved

This is a lecture I gave to a group of young people in a political training academy we run in Sri Lanka.

Humans have communicated for hundreds of thousands of years. Most of that communication was NOT through social media, TV, or even writing. It is important to understand this deep history of…