>I’ve lived away from my home in America, in Rome, among the achievements and the ruins of 3,000 years.
What was literacy at back 3000 years ago? Maybe 5% for men only? Jesus times i think they raised that up to 10-20% still men only?
I know that the guttenberg press about 600 years ago greatly increased literacy like 50%? Then the industrial revolution and government forced literacy up to the 90% or so rate we have today.
Can you imagine the trend on how much writing is happening along that path? It has ever increasingly been expanding. Today with social media there's so much writing produced that you cant fathom to read 0.000000001% of it in your lifetime.
It makes me wonder how the author seems to think an 'end of writing' is even a plausible scenario.
What was literacy at back 3000 years ago? Maybe 5% for men only? Jesus times i think they raised that up to 10-20% still men only?
I know that the guttenberg press about 600 years ago greatly increased literacy like 50%? Then the industrial revolution and government forced literacy up to the 90% or so rate we have today.
Can you imagine the trend on how much writing is happening along that path? It has ever increasingly been expanding. Today with social media there's so much writing produced that you cant fathom to read 0.000000001% of it in your lifetime.
It makes me wonder how the author seems to think an 'end of writing' is even a plausible scenario.