John Dickerson: Is there a storyline about how you get from the first place that a person can write down their innermost thoughts to what we conceive of as journals and diaries now, which are more the location for our personal exploration? How do you see that story going?
Roland Allen: It’s really interesting. There’s one big question at the heart of it, which no one’s ever answered, which is why people who were using notebooks all the time—in Italy, for instance, but also Germany, France, everywhere in Europe—for hundreds of years, yet no one keeps what we think of as a personal diary.
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