Writing in hyperhistory
There's a well-known distinction between prehistory and history. History, we say, is everything after the invention of writing. This first happened around 7,000 years ago.
But we shouldn't think of history as referring to a period in the earth's development, but rather as a descriptor of how people live. That is, even after writing was first invented, ma…
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