The article is historically wrong. The oldest known cave murals etc. are 44000 years old [1], while cuneiform, heiroglyphics, Sumerian, Mesopotamian etc. are o

The article is historically wrong. The oldest known cave murals etc. are 44000 years old [1], while cuneiform, heiroglyphics, Sumerian, Mesopotamian etc. are only about 3000-4000 years old [2]. A strange beautiful example of complex information presented visually which was in use until recently, are the Polynesian navigation charts [3]. Our primary method of communcation is probably visual and/or auditory. The prominence and seeming economy of text in digital communications is probably because data is presented and transmitted as a one dimensional sequence of bits. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing#Cuneiform_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing#Cuneiform_s... [3] https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/pacific-apah/micronesia-apah/a/navigation-charts https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/pacifi...