by Irving Fang and Ann Norris
ISBN: 1-933-01170-XWhat would we do without books or movies, without recordings or television or telephones? How would we live in a world without writing? In our modern society we spend much of each waking day with the media of communication. Using them is almost as basic as breathing and eating.
Writing, first of the 11-volume The Story of Communication, takes us from humans' earliest symbols to the invention of printing. With a few scratches our ancestors began the never-ending story of recorded information, the storage of knowledge outside the brain. Here was the dawn of history. The human mind would no longer be restricted by the limits of memory. It could leap distance and time. Knowledge would have no boundaries.
