From cuneiform to computer keystrokes. Thus when digital technologies of reading and writing arose, soon thereafter people became intensely reflective about what had preceded them: books, paper, pens ...

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

For instance, there's some doubt over whether Thomas Edison really came up with the idea of the motion picture camera — or whether he pinched it. There's also a question mark over whether "ignored" ...

In 2010, archaeologist Glenn Schwartz quietly suggested that the history of writing needs, well, rewriting. More than a decade later, he still thinks he's on to something. If he's right, the world's ...

London is a huge draw for Americans, but the British Library, the United Kingdom’s equivalent to the Library of Congress, is not always on people's radar. But the library's collection is comprehensive ...

It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...

The history of student writing at the University of Virginia goes back to the arrival of the first class on Grounds in 1825. From the beginning, students showed concern for robust inquiry and ...

In 1925, Sigmund Freud wrote what is now a fairly well-known essay, “A Note on the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad.’” The Mystic Writing-Pad was a relatively simple device that enabled the instant erasure of any ...

This book The History of Writing was a present from my husband - he bought it online and the previous owner lives in Texas! It's a nineteenth century English publication exploring systems of writing.

“The increase in the velocity of history means, among other things, that the ‘present’ becomes the ‘past’ more swiftly than ever before.” There is nothing new about man’s recording the events of his ...