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The first IT revolution
Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people
Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity
Chinese: a love of paperwork
Maya glyphs: calendars of kings
Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon
Japanese: three scripts are better than one
Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers
The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years
The empire of Sanskrit
King Sejong's one-man renaissance
Greek serendipity
The age of Latin
The alphabet meets the machine.
Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people
Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity
Chinese: a love of paperwork
Maya glyphs: calendars of kings
Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon
Japanese: three scripts are better than one
Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers
The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years
The empire of Sanskrit
King Sejong's one-man renaissance
Greek serendipity
The age of Latin
The alphabet meets the machine.