One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space between the words. People just wrote in continuous script.

One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space between the words. People just wrote in continuous script.

There are a whole lot of reasons to be very happy that our brains are able to adapt and adapt so readily because we do strengthen and become more efficient at things we do a lot of in changed ways of thinking that we might need.

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)