Fiat lux

[Alois Senefelder]

Hello, hopefully the "History of Printing" is of some interest ??? --- if so the following PDFs will be interesting.


Regards, Alois

 

[GazKL440]

its interesting to note that we work in an industry that has had more impact on the development of humanity than perhaps any other pursuit..

 

[oxburger]

a really interesting show on printing's impact on the world was a t.v. show called "connections" hosted by James Burke. wikipedia link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

can't remember the name of the episode, but really good.

 

[otherthoughts]

Great post Alois!

Printing is what, in large part drew the masses out of ignorance. Before printing, only the privileged few had access to the expensive and relatively few handwritten texts available.

Before Printing, the masses largely had to make do with oral dissemination of wisdom handed down from one generation to the next.

So printing in many respects brings us arguably to the debut of the Internet, which seems to be foretold in the last paragraph of the second attachment that Alois posted?

So does this mean that those with internet access are now the priviledged few?

What do you guys think?
Otherthoughts