Okay all you readers and writers out there. Have you given much thought to the distance we, as human beings have covered to come to where we are with communication through the written word?
Storytelling?
The news?
Advertising?
All the other reasons we put words
to paper?
Yes, we’ve gone from slapping our
handprints on cave walls along with crude drawings to hand-written scrolls to
printing presses to computers with a few side-trips along the way. We are
communicating like never before – for better or for worse. Drag your feet or
dive right in. It doesn’t matter. It’s here to stay and it’s moving forward.
I came across this wonderful site, A
Brief History of Publishing – In Pictures that created an infographic on the
history of publishing, starting with cave paintings and ending with Amazon
first reporting ebook sales outnumbering print book
Sales. Yep, if you’ve turned your
back and haven’t noticed, it did happen. The digtal world is exploding.
It’s fascinating and an eye opener
and I thought I’d share it with my readers. The progression is fascinating,
many of the pictures amusing and educational. It’s short, but then that’s what
we expect of such websites, no?
Take a look, then tell me what you
think the next great step forward is going to be!
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