Saturday, December 26, 2009

Invisible Communication

Product of modern travel have rendered communication invisible. Imagine two cities as people conversing to one another with phones connected by lines. We understand one person to be conversating with another because the line of communication is made visible, tangible to the eyes. If a third person was to transgress through unaware at first of the communication occuring between the initial parties, the third person may then enter into conversation upon awareness of communication which have taken physical form; the person may then participate and thus establish his presence within the larger scope of dialogue being exchanged. Participation is thus elicited with the physical embodiment of communication. If one were to replace the idea of modern travel with modern communication, such as the cell phone, the scenerio may then expose the idea of invisible communication. The communication that once vibrated back and forth between a physical line is now tranfsormed by the modern machine into frequencies carried through radio waves. If we return back to the scenario of two people conversating back and forth and replace there tool of communication with the cell phone, the physical form of communication is then made invisible to the eye. As such communication is made invisible to the eye, the third person which travels through is not made known of such conversation and is thus not allowed to be made aware of the opportunity to participate and enter into dialogue.

Now if we replace the scenerio of two people as cities and place seperated by the pressures of movement, onto which carries the third person, we can now understand why the third person does not enter into dialogue, as he is not aware of the present communication that is occuring.

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