CS100 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - Print The answers to a few questions on the film "The Day The Universe Changed" as well as a review on what was talked about in previous lectures and this one. October 6th, 2010.

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Speech is often understood as an innate human ability. Writing involved the adaptation of natural materials, the creation of communication media (papyrus, clay are both medias) Writing requires special tools and special skills (the creation of a special class/specialists) Greek alphabet (from which our alphabet is descendent) appears around 730 bce. Greek alphabet said to have democratized writing (havelock 38); writing no longer confined to a group of specialists. Scholars (havelock, ong) make a distinction between the type of cultures and social organizations possible with literacy/orality. Literacy remained limited in scope before the creation of the printing press (havelock 41) Literacy did not lead automatically to a literate populous (texts had limited availability) Between writing and print storage and retrieval. Modern printing press invented ~1441 by johannes glutenberg (germany) We can"t assume that the introduction of print alone changed the world (eisenstien) Print was the major cultural/technological transformation in the history of the west (64)

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