Writing

The skill of reading and writing, the media that carry it, and the machines now built from it.

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  • Catalogue · Communication · Learning

    Local language models

    Produces text in response to text, on a computer you control, with no connection to its maker. It works by predicting likely next words from patterns found in a very large body of writing.

    No. 019
  • Catalogue · Learning

    Vernacular literacy

    Lets people keep words outside memory: write them down, send them across distance and time, and read what others have written, in the tongues they already speak and for uses of their own.

    No. 018
  • Catalogue · Communication · Learning

    Hosted language models

    Produces text in response to text, as a service run by a company: answers, summaries, translations, drafts, and computer code. It works by predicting likely next words from patterns found in a very large body of writing.

    No. 015
  • Catalogue · Learning

    The book

    Holds text and pictures on pages bound along one edge, so a reader can carry it, open it anywhere, and return to any passage without power or permission.

    No. 014
  • Catalogue · Learning

    Imposed literacy

    Teaches a whole population to read and write one standard language, fixed by rule, certified by schools, and required by offices.

    No. 013