A quick sketch of the history of the printing press, with some antecedents and effects. Most images from Wikipedia.

1. One powerful technology:
The printing press
Technology and Innovation
2022 Fall

2. Stone
tablets

3. Scroll

4. Precolumbian codex

5. European
Codex

6. Manuscript

9. https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14596905430/

13. Hummingbird impacts
Non-Latin languages
Unapproved religion and politics
New industry + skills
Textual, not oral literacy
Collection->production
Individualism

14. https://www.flickr.com/photos/carlberger/6130468956/

15. Early modern information overload, 1685:
“We have reason to fear that the multitude
of books which grows every day in a
prodigious fashion will make the following
centuries fall into a state as barbarous as
that of the centuries that followed the fall of
the Roman Empire…”

16. “…Unless we try to prevent this danger by
separating those books which we must
throw out or leave in oblivion from those
which one should save and within the latter
between what is useful and what is not.”
-Adrien Baillet, Jugemens des sçavans sur les principaux
ouvrages des auteurs (Paris, 1685)

17. Marginal annotations

18. ●Cyclopedia (Ephraim
Chambers, 1728)
●Encyclopedie (1751-
1772)