Something easily forgotten but remarkable when noticed–[we write more as a society today than ever before](http:\/\/www.wired.com\/opinion\/2013\/09\/how-successful-networks-nurture-good-ideas\/all\/). An excerpt from [Clive Thompson’s new book](http:\/\/smarterthanyouthink.net\/):<\/p>\n
> Every day, we collectively produce millions of books\u2019 worth of writing. Globally we send 154.6 billion emails, more than 400 million tweets, and over 1 million blog posts and around 2 million blog comments on WordPress. On Facebook, we post about 16 billion words. Altogether, we compose some 3.6 trillion words every day on email and social media \u2014 the equivalent of 36 million books.* (The entire US Library of Congress, by comparison, holds around 23 million books.)<\/p>\n
> And what makes this explosion truly remarkable is what came before: comparatively little. Before the Internet, most people rarely wrote for pleasure or intellectual satisfaction after graduating from high school or college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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