I wonder why we use computers and other questions about communications
By Richard Mead
From animal signals to satellites, could Earth’s messages reach life beyond our planet?
Genres
What is I wonder why we use computers and other questions about communications about?
How do people, animals and machines share information? This lively question-and-answer book explores the many ways we communicate. Discover how animals send signals, how people used pictures and writing in the past, and how telephones, computers, satellites and other inventions carry messages around the world. With clear explanations, amusing facts and engaging illustrations, it shows how communication has changed over time—and even asks whether messages from Earth could reach life beyond our planet.
Pages
32 pages
Reading age
Early Reader (5-8)
This edition
1996
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