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The Writing Revolution : Cuneiform to the Internet.
In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this communication tool to show how it...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2009.
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| Colección: | Language library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Preface; 1 The First IT Revolution; 2 Cuneiform: Forgotten Legacy of a Forgotten People; 3 Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Quest for Eternity; 4 Chinese: A Love of Paperwork; 5 Maya Glyphs: Calendars of Kings; 6 Linear B: The Clerks of Agamemnon; 7 Japanese: Three Scripts are Better than One; 8 Cherokee: Sequoyah Reverse-Engineers; 9 The Semitic Alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 Years; 10 The Empire of Sanskrit; 11 King Sejong's One-Man Renaissance; 12 Greek Serendipity; 13 The Age of Latin; 14 The Alphabet Meets the Machine; Appendix; Further Reading; Index.