"The invention of printing only brought benefits," say the optimists and the pessimists, (read: bullish experience), answered: "No, it is impossible, perfection does not exist, we're forgetting something. What has brought inconvenience this invention? "
It is true that the press was so rudimentary medieval allowed no great editorials and Johannes Gutenberg's invention led to a marked increase in runs, accompanied by a lowering in facilitating access to books for people of lower purchasing power.
Something similar is happening today with many products (cell phones, watches, computers), digital technology: increasing cost less because the economy of scale allows more about lower production costs.
Rule to emphasize the loss of jobs that were copyists, workers who did the transcribing books in manuscript content.
Rule also emphasize the loss of employment of the elderly, those who even today is said that his death means the loss of a library. The new generations are not dependent on these venerable characters, capable of transmitting valuable knowledge and amusing stories, because after Gutenberg, could quarrel with Grandpa and engage in reading books.
Because of Gutenberg, the production of books became an industry, with all relevant criteria and lucrative commercial, popularizing indirectly the obsolescence of knowledge.
The oral transmission before the printing press allowed information to flow enriched by each intermediary, but the book that dynamic conceptual crystallized (edited because after can not be changed), generating mistakenly arrogant notion of "ultimate truth."
Print, because of Gutenberg, convinces, hypnotize, is alienating misinformation.
Note: Original in Spanish (without
translation by Google): Los
libros son alienantes.
(This is the Article No. 1718)
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