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Re:Gutenberg’s moving type propelled Europe towards the scie... by black-tea on Sunday April 07, 2019 @04:21AM (#19595552)
Speaking is the only one on that list not generally considered a technology. Every human civilisation we know about has developed spoken language. It seems to be built in to us.

Writing has only been independently invented a few times in history, as far as we know. Some historians reckon that map-making came before written language and it was that which had the largest impact.

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