21st Century Cave Paintings

Are you ready for adventure?
Interested in discovering lost treasure?
Prepared to unlock the secrets of a lost civilization?

Then grab you bull whip, don your fedora, and climb aboard your keyboard as we set out to discover those gems of insight, thought, humor, and education buried deep within the layers of electronic gossamer which make up the internet. But unlike archiologists of the past we do not have to physically travel the globe digging through ruins to unearth these treasure. They are all here in your laptop. Yet finding the jewels that interest you buried beneath a mountain of data is just as daunting a task. And instead of picks and shovels, we use googles and yahoos.  But as with those diggers of old a keen mind and instinct are still your best tools.  And the treasures of which I speak are blogs.  But let me switch gears here for a moment and explain how I see the internet. I have said in earlier posts that I believe that the internet is the new age of broadcasting, and by this definition that is true.
broad⋅cast⋅ing;
1 : to scatter or sow (as seed) over a broad area
2 : to make widely known
3 : to transmit or make public by means of radio or television
"broadcast." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2009.

All the major TV and cable networks are now rebroadcasting their programs, and websites like Hulu, and YouTube are also providing content. Now while I believe the internet can be considered the next step in the evolution of communications, it has in other areas taken a step back.  It makes information available in the manner of a library, storing vast amounts of information in one place. But to truly understand my point, you need to consider for a moment the birth of communications. Most agree that it begins with early cave paintings. The earliest known European cave paintings date to 32,000 years ago. 

The purpose of the paleolithic cave paintings is not known. The evidence suggests that they were not merely decorations of living areas, since the caves in which they have been found do not have signs of ongoing habitation. Also, they are often in areas of caves that are not easily accessed. Some theories hold that they may have been a way of transmitting information. 

And just like those early humans I sit hear in front of my keyboard sketching out a story with words on the walls of my blog, hoping that someday someone will happen upon it and understand its meaning. 

So go forth, whip in hand and hat on head and sift the bits and bytes at your finger tips, urging these hidden wonders to the surface.





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