Of related interest: "Digitale Keilschrift / Digital Cuneiform unites the oldest communication technology with the newest, completing a kind of historical circu

Of related interest: "Digitale Keilschrift / Digital Cuneiform unites the oldest communication technology with the newest, completing a kind of historical circuit. It is an offshoot of the decodeunicode project (see Eye 64), which aims to create Unicode versions of all forms of writing. This has practical importance where living scripts are concerned, opening digital technology to marginalised language communities; for archaic scripts the rationale is vaguer, or more quixotic. Digitisation will allow for ease of reproduction and searchable versions of cuneiform documents (more than half a million of these mostly hand-sized clay tablets survive). But, as Johannes Bergerhausen writes, its main appeal will be to those ‘who love losing themselves in signs and symbols’ – or, to put it bluntly, geeks." http://www.eyemagazine.com/review/article/elegantly-nerdish http://www.eyemagazine.com/review/article/elegantly-nerdish