How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
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Though the idea behind writing is simple—store invisible noises by transforming them into visible shapes—the invention of writing was actually an incredibly difficult thing for humans to do. It’s so difficult, in fact, that across all of human history, it has happened a grand total of two times: