Transporting Information

Sending messages in low tech societies

Oct 07, 2020

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Painting by Frederic Remington showing native americans generating a smoke signal; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth — Painting by Frederic Remington showing Native Americans generating a smoke signal; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth

The first roads were little more than game trails. Early infrastructure focused more on stopping travel than facilitating it. With civilization, though, came a need to transport information, and history presents us with thousands of years of …

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