The writing revolution cuneiform to the Internet - Gnanadesikan, Amalia E.; ebrary, Inc. (Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Writing -- History; Alphabet -- History; Electronic books