Dennis Duncan

Is writing now changing the world for the worse?

Humanity’s great civilising accomplishment may have slipped the leash. Computer programs and surveillance also involve ‘writing’, potentially making us decreasingly human

A coding programmer writing on a laptop with circuit board and java script on a virtual screen. [Getty Images]
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  • How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now

    Walter Stephens

    Johns Hopkins, pp. 576, £30

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