four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Fiction - NYTimes.com - 28 views
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"AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected quarter: neuroscience. Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life."
The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
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the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
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