Gnanadesikan, Amalia E. <br/><br/>
The writing revolution :  cuneiform to the Internet / 
Amalia E. Gnanadesikan 
 - Chichester, U.K.  :  Wiley-Blackwell,  2009 
 - xii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. (some col.), maps ;  23 cm. 
 - The language library .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1405154063 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405154062 (hardcover : alk. paper)  RM318.42 1405154071 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405154079 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Writing--History<br/>Alphabet--History