> It started with cave paintings and evolved to what it is now. Actually, our writing system evolved from accounting tokens. Eventually we learned we could sav

> It started with cave paintings and evolved to what it is now. Actually, our writing system evolved from accounting tokens. Eventually we learned we could save on little figurines by pressing the one into clay a bunch. And at any rate, writing encodes speech and is severely limited to the limitations spoken speech has. Rather than be well-optimized, writing is severely limited by tradition, by the physical limitation of auditory communication, and by the physical limitations of encoding it into paper.