A brief history of modern human behaviour, a look at how the invention of writing brings us closer to our distant ancestors, how technology meets our desires, and history’s importance to futurism.
like me with such contempt? “I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. “Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way.”
the coach all this afternoon, and seeing what o’clock it is one hundred times, and am apt to think with myself, how could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while I lived.” Samuel Pepys, 1665
those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory.” Socrates, ~410BCE “Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves.” Unknown principal “In so far as the broadcasting adds to the general welter, it may fill us with foreboding.” Hilda Matheson, 1933 “Why doth solid and serious learning decline, and few or none follow it now? Because of coffee-houses, where they spend all their time.” Anthony Wood, ~1670