Alphabetization, first millennium b.c. – Made knowledge accessible and searchable—and may have contributed to the rise of societies that used phonetic letters over those that used ideographic ones
Engineering – making 'things' that work and making 'things' work better
Alphabetization, first millennium b.c. – Made knowledge accessible and searchable—and may have contributed to the rise of societies that used phonetic letters over those that used ideographic ones