An exploration of the original Information Technology - the writing systems of history
The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet explores the origins, historical development, adaptations, linguistic properties, cultural context, and social impact of one of humankind's greatest inventions: writing systems.Now in its second edition, this popular book traces the history of writing from the earliest proto-cuneiform tablet to the latest AI-generated text. Author Amalia E. Gnanadesikan offers an engaging, highly readable narrative account of how different writing systems originated, how they evolved over time, and how they have represented languages around the world.
Concise, easy-to-digest chapters cover each of the world's major written traditionsacross time and space, including Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Bronze-Age Linear B, New World writing systems, the Roman alphabet, and many others. Updated throughout, The Writing Revolution features new and expanded coverage of the Digital Age, including Unicode, the World Wide Web, emojis, generative AI, and more.
Investigating how the creation of writing made the modern world possible, The Writing Revolution:
| ISBN: | 9781394218196 |
| Publication date: | 8th May 2025 |
| Author: | Amalia E Gnanadesikan, John Wiley Sons |
| Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Series: | The Language Library |
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Language: reference and general |