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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It just occurred to me that widespread literacy is likely dependent on having the right technologies for storing and distributing writing. You need cheap and transportable. Proclamations carved on mountainsides, clay tablet receipts, and wall frescoes are cool, but not necessarily practical nor efficient for transmitting the thoughts on them. And their existence won't necessarily motivate most people to want or need to read and write.