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[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Writing isn't just storing information. It's transmitting it across much greater distances, more times, with much less corruption.

Oral transmission is better than nothing, but written transmission inherently has better reach. Then the printing press allowing for mass reproduction of transmission, then the internet for rapid, much more democratized transmission. It's the spread of ideas so they can intermingle that's the super-accelerator.

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