I happen to be reading "The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present" by Eric Havelock. It is rich in its understanding of the transition from the oral to the written culture---using Greece as its test case---and for any of our cohort interested in what you rightly describe as "one of the most dramatic shifts in human culture," this book will delight.
I happen to be reading "The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present" by Eric Havelock. It is rich in its understanding of the transition from the oral to the written culture---using Greece as its test case---and for any of our cohort interested in what you rightly describe as "one of the most dramatic shifts in human culture," this book will delight.