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stamped on our underwear. It's so ubiquitous, in fact, that we rarely spare a thought for what a marvel it is. What is Writing? The ability to collect and organize thoughts, observations and opinions and to encode them in a format that others can access long after we're gone is the crowning achievement of the human race. It wasn't always this way. People have been trying to communicate all along. Before the development of language, we used the "point, grunt and shove" method. It had its place, but it couldn't keep up with the complexities swirling through our primitive brains. Eventually, humans developed the spoken word. By vocalizations, we could convey concepts that were far more subtle than what we could communicate through grunts and gestures. Yesterday, tomorrow, forever, nowhere, nothing, created nuances in our communications that further expanded our thoughts and imaginations. The written word took things to a whole new level. By assigning little squiggles and lines to represent different sounds, we were able to make a lasting record of our thoughts. Everything we have achieved in science, technology, medicine, literature, music and so on owes its existence to the ability to write things down. Sometimes when I say this, someone reminds me that we don't need to write things down, because we can make videos of ourselves speaking, and those videos will live on after us. First, we can be more precise in writing. Flubs, incomplete thoughts and errors are far easier to edit in written form. But let's set that argument aside. Consider something we know from history. Simply put, we would have never developed the ability to record audio and video if not for the written word.
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