THE NEED TO COMMUNICATE: ORIGINS OF DISTANCE COMMUNICATION

Since the appearance of the first primates, some sixty-five million years ago, the need to communicate has always been present, progressing through the great milestones of human evolution.

The first tools appear to generate sounds and alert the rest of the group members; oral language, to transmit ideas and thoughts; the conquest of fire and its domestication to send and see signals in the distance; the expression of ideas and thoughts in images and later the written word, to transfer knowledge and experiences. At first, the needs were very basic: survival, warning of possible dangers and feeding.

Gestures made with the hands, emission of natural sounds were part of communication in its origins. Human beings are naturally social and curious, always eager to discover new experiences. All this stimulates communication with each other.