Communication Band is a research and technology studio rethinking the foundations of human communication.
We believe one of the most fundamental systems underpinning civilization, language, is no longer fit for purpose. Evolved in a different era, under different constraints, human communication is narrow, lossy, and prone to manipulation. It struggles to carry complexity, nuance, or scale. As the volume of knowledge and data surged, our primary interface for collaborating, expressing and understanding has remained largely unchanged.
We are not the first to notice this. Philosophers, linguists, scientists and writers have long pointed to the mismatches between thought and language, between what we know and how well we can transfer it. But unlike previous eras, when solving attempts have failed, we might now possess the tools to do something about it.
Communication Band was founded to explore this challenge head-on.
We operate as both a thinking studio and a technology lab. Our work spans from theoretical inquiry into the nature of information, cognition and language, across disciplines like computer science, biology, physics, psychology and philosophy, to building prototypes that attempt to chart a path forward.
What forms of communication already exist that we’ve overlooked or misunderstood?
What can nature, machines, and cognition teach us about the transfer of meaning?
And can we design new tools that make complexity clearer, not noisier?
We publish essays, share research and build tools with a single aim: to improve how communication works at its core. These are tall aspirations, but we believe that with practical methods, a long view and continuous iteration, progress is possible.
Communication Band was founded by Elad Daniel, an entrepreneur and thinker, as a structure for long-term, independent exploration of this problem. The mission, however, is not personal. The question of how we communicate is one of the largest and least addressed structural bottlenecks humanity faces today. It affects how we govern, how we collaborate, how we teach, and how we think.
Feel free to reach out.