Knowledge Technology: The Muse Learns to Compute

Literate cultures use writing as a kind of'knowledge technology.' Unlike older, oral cultures, they are able to store human intelligence outside the human brain. Literate cultures change the kind of knowledge that humanity can experience. In the coming era of machine intelligence, we face a transformation that will similarly transform what humans can know. I just finished reading Eric A. Havelock's 1986 book, The Muse Learns to Write.