It ’s a fascinating question . Over at Charles Stross ’ web log , he responds to a reader query : What would a technical society await like without written lyric ? And could such a thing even happen ?
Stross ’ answer : belike not . After a certain point , a lot of thing that we think of as necessary for an modern technological civilization would require piece of writing . let in laws , economic systems , and just the repositing of large total of technical cognition . ( Although guess if there was a species whose store and lifetime were unspoilt enough that you could explain a machine to a member of that coinage , and they ’d keep the knowledge alive , unmarried - handed , for thousands of years . ) Assuming the constraints of human mind , Stross says , we ’d be lucky to reach a rebirth level of technical school and mathematics without write .
There is one possible out , however : If this hypothetical illiterate smart set was able to evolve sound - recording technology ( like wax cylinders ) it might be able to put in a lot of information without the written Logos .
The whole discussion is well worth checking out . [ Charlie ’s Diary ]
Top picture : Batman Adventures # 5 , nontextual matter by Ty Templeton .
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