A History of Writing

Cuneiform. Clay tablets.
The beginnings of the written word.
Man makes his mark, a record preserved.
Shopping lists. Royal decrees.
A student hard at work.
Legal codes. Official correspondence.

Thin sheets of leaves pressed together.
Ink carefully mixed. Scrolls. Codices.
Parchment. Vellum.
Sacred texts. Every-day life.
Man records his life and his time.
Stories. Plays. Epics. Wars.
Libraries are built to house the knowledge.

Scribes. Monks. Archivists.
Scriptoria. Illuminated texts.
Words and art are melded together,
Harmoniously supporting each other.

Moveable type. Printing presses.
Access to knowledge explodes.
Paper. Books. Reading.
The masses hunger to know more.

Newspapers. Serialized stories.
Man records the heights of glory and the heights of folly.
Ideas and ideologies flow and are spread.
Who controls the narrative?
Who controls what is printed?

Another technology awakens.
No longer physical, but something more ethereal.
More books. More stories. More knowledge than ever before.
At our fingertips, more information than any library has ever held.

And yet, the act of recording still harkens back to its first roots.
Shopping lists. Records of our days.
Governmental decrees. Stories. Plays.
Epics. Wars. Students practicing.
Man leaves his mark.
But, how will it be unearthed in the future?

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