Its fascinating that script seems to have been invented to serve as a credit contracts database and to support associated accounting and taxation functions. Th

Its fascinating that script seems to have been invented to serve as a credit contracts database and to support associated accounting and taxation functions. The central role of bean counting in pushing information technology repeated in rennaisance with paper ledgers and was key also in early commercialization of computers (IBM). Somehow the thread has been broken as of recent, with blockchain almost a parody of progress. We mostly still emulate age old patterns. A visitor banker from Ur III would very quickly find their way to the bad loan books.