The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

The earliest writing came in the form of marks pressed into wet clay with a sharpened reed. Clayton, a calligrapher and former consultant to Xerox PARC, explores the societal and cultural impact of writing as it shifted from clay to papyrus, parchment, movable type, and pixels. The book ↗ makes the case for writing as an evolving infrastructure, where each advancement improves our ability to disseminate ideas.