Saturday, 1 November 2008

Story 2 Meeting in the cave

Place: A cave in an island

Members: Asem, Ali, Don, Red, Alisha

Purpose: Planning the hunting

Story: It has been almost one week the whole tribe did not find sufficient food, that's why the five most respectful elders gathered today to plan a whole tribe hunting.
They communicate by drawing on the ground with a stick. What they need to solve is as follows:

  • Groups
  • Strategies
  • Tools.

Groups: Divide the tribe into 3 or 4 groups. Every group include men, women, children, old men.

Strategies: Set a specific area.ll the 4 groups come from different directions, driving and scaring the animals into one direction, which leads to a cliff. Then, three ways to get the trophies:
  • Catching them with cane-net.
  • Shoot them with arrows.
  • Put woods, dry grasses in advance, light the fire around the animals to scare and fire sthem.
Tools/ material: cane- nets,arrows, woods, dry grasses.


Similarities:
  • Thinking process is the same, no technology involved.
  • In the two scenarios, wherever the people are,whenever the things happen, all the smembers need to learn from each other.
  • Both of the two groups of people have limitation of lifetime.
  • The instinct of surviving. Such as organic food.
  • In both scenarios they use body language, emotions.
  • The realization of the values of physical presence and attendance: getting together face to face talking, not just making all the communication using a computer.

Differences:

Dressing:
Ancient time: wear leather clothing, no shoes
Modern time: Fibres, computer designed and manufactured clothes

The mediums of communication:
Ancient time: pigeon, shouting, human messengers, riding horses and elephants, smoke signals
Modern time: phone, email, fax, mobile phone, traditional mail, Voice over IP (VoIP)

The time of initiation:
Ancient times: initiate a month ago
Modern times: five or 10 minutes before schedule

Facilities:
Ancient times: fire, stones used as chairs, eating using bare hands
Modern times: chairs, tables, light, forks, spoons etc

Food preparation:
Ancient times: uncooked food or wood fire used to cook
Modern times: electrical devices such as ovens, microwaves, heaters etc

Conveying message:
Ancient times: drawing pictures
Modern times: texting, emailing, voice messaging