At the very beginning, we talked about making TikTok, Little Red Book, and all the apps that people are using now. However, considering that these apps are too abstract, Hetapod should be introduced from the technical basis of these apps and the network. As the network is one of the most important technologies of modern civilization, we decided to make a timeline of all the processes from the beginning of human communication to the present, and use a circle to connect them all together. Therefore, we used a circle to represent the “timeline” of communication tools from the first murals to the current network. But in fact, due to Hetapod’s reading habit, we think it is easier for him to understand the circle without a head and a tail. Considering Hetapod’s writing habits, we used pictures instead of words. Since Hetapod had observed the Earth and humans, we assume that they could understand the symbols common to human civilization and recognize the shapes of different animals. The earliest form of human communication that historians have discovered is from cave paintings and stone carvings from Around 30000 BCE. Those are the animal-shaped images in the upper right corner, representing the original murals. The second is the transmission of books by pigeon, which is said to have begun in 776 B.C. Pigeons can fly much faster than humans can walk, increasing the speed at which people can transmit information. The next thing that looks like a letter is the post office. And then there’s Morse code, which is a way of transmitting information using electrical pulses. Then came the first use of the telephone in 1876. This almost delay-free way of transmitting information has completely changed the way humans communicate. And then there’s the network. Just like the line on the earth in the picture, two points anywhere can be connected quickly through the network. The bottom left is the satellite used by the Earth.
I hope Hetapod can understand our design
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