A Better Pencil-Baron Part 2

This book talked a lot about how writing has evolved and ways in which people communicate. I think it is crazy how much things have changed from writing on clay tablets, to paper and pencil/ink, to typewriters, to modern day computers and technology. I would like to compare and contrast this book to the Orality and Literacy book that we read in the beginning because that book talked a lot more about oral language and communication but A Better Pencil was all about different forms of written communication. I learned in Orality and Literature that language was substantially more oral than written which I believe was definitely the case during the time of the clay forms of writing. People were a lot more use to communicating orally through hierarchies in communities so they came up with clay to write on only when it was extremely necessary. These people did not have unlimited amounts of paper or even no paper at all to write on so clay or drawing on walls was their best option. I think this is very interesting because in our world today that would make things so complicated especially for communication within states and countries. How would a state law get passed around on a slab of clay for everyone to be informed about? This is why I believe so many things with both oral and written language have evolved for the better because we now have really great communication compared to what they had long ago.