Looking Through the Past

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How We Serve Our Creations

How We Serve Our Creations

We use technology, but it uses us back

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George Dillard
Feb 02, 2023
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Writing is something we all take for granted, but it’s worth noting that there’s something magical about it. Silvia Ferarra put it this way in her book The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts:

Writing is sound made visible and tangible, and as such it interacts intimately with our sens…

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