Communication medium

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Created: July 1, 2017 / Updated: December 9, 2019 / Status: in progress / 2 min read (~220 words)

  • What are some other form of communication that could be developed that are more efficient than writing/reading, speaking/listening?

  • Availability
  • Resilience (number of copies)
  • Throughput
    • Creation
    • Consumption
  • Ease of consumption
  • Storage requirements

  • Not accessible from anywhere

  • Can be made available anywhere

  • Require an "expensive" tool for data entry (smartphone, laptop)

  • Must be present to hear message
  • Slower than reading
  • Communication can only happen through a single channel
  • Can only be retrieved if recorded

  • Easy to log/record for retrieval

  • Must be present to hear message
  • Slower than reading
  • Communication can only happen through a single channel

  • Possibility to delay processing
  • Multiple communications can happen in parallel (or more specifically, concurrently as we can't process two (or more) conversations at the same time)
  • Easy to log/record for retrieval

  • Cannot participate in conversation is processing at a later time

  • Possibility to delay processing
  • Easy to log/record for retrieval

  • Cannot participate in conversation is processing at a later time
  • Slower than reading

  • Less parallel communication channel(s), it is difficult to have multiple communications at the same time