For one day, I could not speak and all I could do to communicate was illustrating pictures on the whiteboard and using body languages to explain things. I thought it was going to be easy as the "Facebook fest", but it turned out to be brutal. It was really hard to illustrate instead of talking, and even harder when I kept thinking about the fact that I could not talk. However this "Mediafest" taught me the value of communication. I learned how talking and sharing ideas through speaking can affect me and others. As Postman wrote in his book, we couldn't realize how communication is important untill you actually experience elimination of talking. I personally think elimination of talking can resulted in elimination of thinking and creativity, that way, this 'Mediafest' made me to think about how our society can change depend on the tool that we choose to communicate with others. Will the tool be the piece of machine or actual person?
I like your point about how society can change the tools we use to communicate. That's certainly been shown over the last many years.
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