2018-09-10
- In the days when people drew by hand, there was no significant cost difference between letters and diagrams.
- At one point in human history, only letters could be replicated at low cost (printing).
- As a result, the letters were used exclusively for knowledge representation and distribution
- Surrounded by book written in letters, learning from textbooks written in letters, expressing and presenting in letters
- As a result, the effects of the temporarily low cost of letter distribution are still being felt
- Looking back on this era from the future, it appears to be a time cursed with letterpress printing.
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