I make my gestures big, energetic and unusual The siren is loud and sudden, in order toĪttract your attention to a potential emergency. Side of the road it’s large and brightly coloured. The sign is positioned where you can see it at the In all three instances, your attention isīeing deliberately grabbed. To understand the message I’m trying to communicate. Me gesturing wildly at you across a crowded room, you can make yourself ready The loud siren that suddenly blares through the office, you can respond to The sign warning of a bend in the road, you can make use of it. Whatever you notice has the potential to communicate And in order to receive it, you have to do Won’t communicate to you if you don’t receive it. No matter how effectively I transmit information, it Serious reason why the model fails to describe communication accurately.īegins, not with transmission, but with reception. I no longer have it when I send a message, I still have it. We can draw aĪ message differs from a parcel in a very obvious way. Seem measurable, predictable and consistent: sending an email seems to be evidenceĪbove all, the model is simple. Impression that information is objective and quantifiable: something that youĪnd I will always understand in exactly the same way. The transmission model is certainly attractive. The classic formulation of the transmission model is the Shannon-Weaver diagram, developed by scientists at the Bell Labs in the 1950s as part of their work to improve telephony. We describe the movement of information in terms of a ‘channel’, along which The canal, the railway and the postal service – as metaphors forįreight, comes in ‘bits’ it needs to be stored, transferred and retrieved. We still use the images of the industrial revolution – This, of course: roads and railways are forms of communication, just as much as Referred mainly to the movement of goods and people. In the nineteenth century, the word ‘communication’ Think of communication as a technical process. That word ‘transmitting’ suggests that we tend to And, ofĬourse, we need to be careful to avoid ‘information overload’. Receiver may need to ‘unpack’ the idea before they can ‘grasp’ it. And the ‘receiver’ – hopefully – ‘gets’ the idea.We try to ‘put our idea across’ (by ‘conveying’ it, like a parcel through.We ‘put the idea into words’ (like putting the parcel into a.Not so much as mental copying and pasting, as a kind of postal delivery The phenomenal mental powers of the Vulcans, we humans envisage communication, Mindmelding embodies, in an extreme, science-fiction version, our most To which a Vulcan would never initiate a mindmeld without the other party’s They later developed a moral code according Privacy, the Vulcans saw mindmelding for a time as taboo. Information effortlessly and completely from their head into another’s?įantasy civilisation of the Vulcans, comes with a heavy price. Spock can download or upload information faultlessly between brains – Successful.) By touching hands or skulls, Mindmeld with other species, including humans, but it’s not always so Wants to transfer information to – or gain information from – another Vulcan,
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