TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gnanadesikan,Amalia E.
TI  - The writing revolution: cuneiform to the Internet 
T2  - The language library
SN  - 9781444304671
AV  - P211 .G58 2009eb
U1  - 411.09 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chichester, U.K., Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Writing
KW  - History
KW  - Alphabet
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index; 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444304671
ER  -