Visual representations
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:15 am
Written word is fine, but to quote a cliche 'a picture says a thousand words' so I'd like to see important things we need to know recorded visually, as well as through text and verbal narrative. A question that kept coming to mind while I was reading The Knowledge was "yes, but what does that actually LOOK like?" I was able to answer that question by searching the internet and YouTube, but let's assume that option won't be available after the apocalypse. How can we preserve visual representations of important things we need to know and do? Perhaps we need to go back to the good old days of photograph albums? And while I'm not suggesting that we all start scribbling on the nearest cliff face, think how much information about early civilisations is still preserved in cave paintings. I appreciate visual learning isn't everyone's preference, but in a do-or-die situation I'd rather have half a dozen well-constructed graphics showing me what to do than wade through pages of text (although, ideally, I'd use both).