TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gnanadesikan,Amalia E.
TI  - The writing revolution: cuneiform to the Internet 
T2  - The language library
SN  - 1405154063 (hardcover : alk. paper)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chichester, U.K.
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Writing
KW  - History
KW  - Alphabet
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 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
ER  -