Amalia E. Gnanadesikan. The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet. Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this communication tool to show how it has conquered the world.