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For 5,000 years most people in the world were illiterate

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For 5,000 years most people in the world were illiterate
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Experiences mediated through oral communication
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Guttenberg and industrialisation drove emergence of literate culture
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Alphabetic writing emerged from early forms of money
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Birth of knowledge bureaus
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Communities of up around 300 people started to emerge
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Proliferation of communication via symbolic objects
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Schism between oral and literate cultures
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