Printing Press
In the beginning of the lecture Mr. Miller asked," What do you think is the most important invention to date?" After a period of silence he answered his own question with the printing press. At first i disagreed with him, but my knowledge on the printing press was very limited. By the end of the lecture not only did i understand his point of view, i agreed with it.
Johannes GutenBurg was not the first to invent the movable printing press, but he was the first one to do it using steel. He didn't realize how much his invention would make on the world only that it would make him a lot of money. Before him the Romans tried using rock and the Chinese tried using wood.
Life without Printing Press
1. Lower Literacy
2. No free public information
3. No democracy
4. No global culture
5. No global and rapid exploration
6. Smaller middle class/ widespread poverty
7. No standardized language or history
8. fewer large scale wars
The list above is only a small amount of what life without the printing press would be like. I am unable to think of one thing that can be on this earth now without being effected by the printing press in some way. Mr. Miller did a wonderful job explaining this lecture. I was able to understand it and it kept me interested!
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