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Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand de Andrew Hill

Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand

Autor Andrew Hill
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 mai 2026
'Reveals fascinating truths about history - my favourite kind of book' SATHNAM SANGHERA'A delightful and moving account of our efforts to capture the truth as it speeds by' TIM HARFORD*A FINANCIAL TIMES WHAT TO READ IN 2026 BOOK*A secret script? A memory-boosting tool? What exactly is shorthand?Cicero's scribe invented it. Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens and even Astrid Lindgren used it. Rivalries, adulteries and actual martyrdoms arose from it. Spycraft was reliant on it, courtroom dramas were changed by it, and feminism has an uneasy debt to it. But today, its continuing existence is at risk. So, what exactly is shorthand? What has it given us? And what would we lose if this world-changing technology disappeared? Andrew Hill follows the story from the scribes of Ancient Rome to today's takeover of AI, revealing how a system of symbols invented to speedily transcribe speech shaped the modern world and can still offer a valuable way to record, store and recall our brightest ideas today.
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ISBN-13: 9781805226178
ISBN-10: 1805226177
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: Integrated
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Andrew Hill is an award-winning journalist, writer and public speaker. A senior writer at the Financial Times, he is the author of Leadership in the Headlines and prize-winning Ruskinland. Over a thirty-year career, Andrew has used shorthand to report from around the world; his top speed was once an impressive 130 words per minute.

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My favourite kind of book: something fantastically niche and nerdy that reveals fascinating truths about history
Brisk, ingenious and full of intriguing loops and turns. This is a witty, wonderfully compressed history of an art that helped write the modern world.
A delightful and moving account of our efforts to capture the truth as it speeds by. Take Note is full of splendid curiosities and surprising tales
Shorthand captures otherwise lost voices; Andrew Hill's extraordinary history does the same, in elegantly recounted stories of ingenuity and innovation from Cicero to Churchill; Pepys to Pippa Longstocking
A must read for anyone who wants to understand a half-hidden feature of our modern world. Hill shows that the history of shorthand is an astonishingly good way to explore our economic and social development over the centuries - and his analysis is more relevant than ever at a time when AI is challenging us to think afresh about communication
Shorthand, a system of fast writing that uses lines and simple signs, used to be almost as ubiquitous in offices as computer software is today. Now, says Hill, the FT's senior business writer, it is mostly a pithy way of summing up a subject. He argues that we might be carelessly discarding a precious tool
Delightful quirky love letter to shorthand though the ages. Makes me regret I never mastered it
An entertaining and engaging page-turner. Andrew Hill makes a convincing case for the survival of "the winged art" in a digital age