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Tongues of Power: How Language Shaped History: The Language Revolution: Five Thousand Years of Writing, Power, and Change
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 28 2025
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tongues of Power: How Language Shaped History
The Language Revolution: From Hieroglyphs to AlgorithmsFrom the first scratchings on cave walls to conversations with artificial intelligence, language has been humanity's most powerful invention. It carries our stories, builds our nations, fuels revolutions, and now-shapes our digital future.
The Language Revolution takes you on a sweeping journey through 5,000 years of history, showing how words and technologies have transformed civilization. Discover how alphabets liberated thought, how printing toppled empires and spread science, how telegraphs and typewriters mechanized communication, and how radio and television turned language into the voice of nations. Follow the rise of the Internet, social media, and AI, as language shifts once again-becoming faster, global, hybrid, and in some cases, written by machines themselves.
Blending storytelling with history, this book introduces the visionaries, rebels, and inventors who changed how we speak, write, and connect. From Johannes Gutenberg to Martin Luther, from the poets of Romanticism to the coders of Silicon Valley, each chapter reveals how revolutions in language have reshaped power, culture, and identity.
If you've ever wondered how words became the true currency of humanity-or what the future of communication might hold-this book is your guide.
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