Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information. (Daniel Levitin)

Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.

Daniel Levitin

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