Exploring Video Communication: Loom's Role in Human Evolution

Name: Exploring Video Communication: Loom's Role in Human Evolution
Uploaded: 2023-07-13T12:33:35+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: Humans are wired for speech, making video efficient for sharing knowledge, but writing compresses ideas into their core essence for maximum impact. The…

13 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Humans are wired for speech, making video efficient for sharing knowledge, but writing compresses ideas into their core essence for maximum impact. The tension between natural oral communication and efficient written forms shapes how we transmit information.

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I think that one of the things that we've thought about a lot, like from the very beginning, is that video is actually a really, really efficient way to encode knowledge. So we biologically evolved to just speak. You know, we didn't biologically evolve to like type or write. And so the problem with speaking is that it's relatively unstructured in nature, whereas writing is ruthlessly efficient from like getting it down to the kernel of the idea that you want and then sharing that out where somebody can consume it in the most compressed way possible.