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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
I don't necessarily think of it as contradictory any more. In just a few more years at the present pace, written words will be very few.
Today's kids can't even scribble a word!
So, if a civilization was advanced millenniums back- perhaps there was no need for a written word.
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The written word generally includes electronic data. The more people the more need for writing. Even the cave folk wrote on the walls of their abodes, though most would consider that to be some form of art rather than writing the way we think of it, but the point is certainly debatable.