“We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Two intellectual consequences of literacy were the separation of history from myth and the increased individualism based on highly specialized knowledge. In… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“More than twenty years ago Sir Charles Snow lamented the sharp division between “The Two Cultures,” the literary/artistic and the scientific. My… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
