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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (236436)

11/1/2013 6:36:28 PM

From: koan

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No, I don't think so. We needed the knowledge to be exact for example equations, geometry, numbers, law. so it needed to be written down. Math, Newton's laws, relativity and quantum mechanics.

Speech alone does not seem to do it. Tribes in Somalia can trace back ancestors hundreds of years, but made little progress intellectually. They were not incorporating the worlds knowledge. They kept repeating the same
myths over and over for a thousand years.

Written language allowed for knowledge to be spread far and wide..

The ancient Greeks wrote their discoveries down.When the were wiped out we started to devolve into the Dark ages, transcribing text was painfully cumbersome and left to priests and monks.Illiteracy reigned supreme.

Then Guttenberg came along and all of a sudden knowledge could be spread to the masses. Some think when we get collective knowledge we transfer it back and forth unconsciously and so our knowledge grows exponentially.

It is the world learning en masse right now that is hurtling us into an unknown future. And we know it is going to be unknown and profound. Just not what that profoundness is going to be-lol?

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re...the ability to transfer knowledge. Speech...Speech....!!!