I've been doing some background reading on knowledge discovery and information retrieval and I find myself lost in the mists of time. The importance of writing to human memory is something I had thought about before of course, but I had not thought of it in the context of early pictographic writing and how it was used to record data and establsh collective knowledge bases. The idea being that an individual's knowledge was no longer bounded by what he/she could remember.
Posted by amdonovan at February 4, 2003 08:40 AM