Reflection 4: Current and Future Trend in Media and Information

Prehistory is the period of human activity between the use of the first stone tools ~3.3 million years ago and the invention of writing systems, the earliest of which appeared ~5300 years ago.Technology that predates recorded history. History is the study of the past using written records; it is also the record itself. Anything prior to the first written accounts of history is prehistoric (meaning "before history"), including earlier technologies. About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, cut food, and bury their dead.

Prehistoric (200,000 BC - 4,000 BC)

Name	Year	Directionality	Preservation
rock carving	c. 200,000 BC	down	permanent
song, music and dance	between 100,000 BC and 30,000 BC	down or up or lateral	transient
language and oration	between 100,000 BC and 30,000 BC	down or up or lateral	transient
body art	between 100,000 BC and 30,000 BC	down or up or lateral	transient
jewellery	between 100,000 BC and 30,000 BC	down or up or lateral	permanent
mythology	between 100,000 BC and 30,000 BC	down	transient
cave painting and visual symbols	between 100,000 BC and 30,000 BC	down	permanent
sculpture	between 100,000 BC and 30,000 BC	down	permanent
pottery	c. 14,000 BC	down	permanent
megalithic architecture	c. 4000 BC	down	permanent

Ancient (3000 BC - 100 AD)

Name	Year	Directionality	Preservation
writing	c. 3000 BC	down	permanent
metallurgical art and bronze sculpture	c. 3000 BC	down	permanent
alphabet	c. 2000 BC	down	permanent
drama	c. 500 BC	down or up or lateral	transient
paper	c. 100 AD	down	permanent

Renaissance (1450 AD - 1620)

Name	Year	Directionality	Preservation
printing press	1450 AD	down	permanent
printed books	c. 1500	down	permanent
newspapers and magazines	c. 1620	down	permanent

Modern (1839 - present)

Name	Year	Directionality	Preservation
photograph	1839	down or up or lateral	permanent
telegraph	1844	lateral	permanent
telephone	1876	lateral	transient
phonograph (gramophone)	1877	down	permanent
movie camera	1891	down or up or lateral	permanent
film	1894	down	permanent
radio	1906	down	permanent
television	1936	down	permanent
videotape	1958	down or up or lateral	permanent
cassette tape	1964	down or up or lateral	permanent
personal computer	1973	down or up or lateral	permanent
compact disc	1983	down	permanent
mobile phone	1991	lateral	transient
internet Source: https://www.sutori.com/story/the-evolution-of-traditional-media-to-new-media-ed91 http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2009/12/media-through-the-ages/ Photo Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sleeping_Antelope_Tin_Taghirt.jpg	1992	down or up or lateral	permanent