How the Alphabet Changed Everything
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Reading this now seems effortless. But this power—the ability to turn a sound into a shape,
a shape into a word—wasn't a brilliant, planned invention. It was a workaround. A hack. <break time="2.5s" />
For thousands of years, writing was art, reserved for kings and gods.
Then, a group of clever workers in the desert made it simple, stealable,
and democratic. This is the story of the alphabet: the greatest information revolution in history,
born from a simple shortcut. <break time="12.0s" /> Our story begins not with scholars, but with laborers.
Canaanite workers in Egyptian mines saw the powerful, but incredibly complex, hieroglyphic script.
To communicate with their Egyptian overseers, they needed a simpler system. <break time="2.5s" /> In a stroke of genius,
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