“It seems almost inevitable that literate people would come to regard their writing technologies as both a metaphor for and the principal embodiment of thought. The mind comes to be understood as a writing surface, and thinking as the activity of inscribing on that surface. . . It may be that cultures invent and refine writing technologies at least in part in order to refashion their definitions of mind and self.” (Bolter[*])

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