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tribalism; and why print causes price systems and markets
such as cannot exist without print. In short, Harold Innis was
the first person to hit upon the process of change as implicit in
the forms of media technology. The present book is a footnote
of explanation to his work.
Diringer is emphatic about only one thing concerning the
alphabet. No matter how or when it was achieved:
At any rate, it must be said that the great
achievement of the invention was not the creation of the
signs . It lies in the adoption of a purely alphabetic
system, which, moreover, denoted each sound by one
sign only. For this achievement, simple as it now seems to
us, the inventor, or the inventors are to be ranked among
the greatest benefactors of mankind. No other people in