The adventure of our scriptures
An interpretation of the history of writing is presented here, since its invention in Mesopotamia around 3300B.C. up to the Internet at the turning point of the millenium. Ancient Middle East, Ancient Mediterranean, Europe and its extensions are concerned. This history shows that the first invention of script has been followed by two resumptions: the first one, the invention of coined money on precious metals, took place in Ionia, around 600 B.C.; the second one is our modern sign revolution and concerns computers. But these three semiotic strating points share the same imagination: we create signs and complex semiotic machines as the very image of our common body.