ITEM: The Information Transmission Evolution Map
Every message has a past.
Explore how humans learned to create, preserve, copy, send, find and transform information, from spoken stories to artificial intelligence.
01Speech02Writing03Printing04Networks05AI
One continuing story: how information escaped the limits of memory, distance and manual effort.
What ITEM is for
Follow the problem behind the technology.
Each topic explains what came before, which constraint was reduced, what became possible next and which older practices survived.
Start with the guided story when you want the broad arc. Use the Library when you already know what you are looking for.