When movable type made cheap, mass printing of books possible, learned people of the time worried that the widespread availability of books would destroy the or

When movable type made cheap, mass printing of books possible, learned people of the time worried that the widespread availability of books would destroy the oral tradition of passing knowledge down through communities (and the Scribes worried that they would be put out of a job). While the oral tradition is not yet destroyed (and in fact I attended a fantastic storytelling session earlier this year that was geared to adults), it has certainly been supplanted as the principal means through which people learn about the world - and thank heavens for it! http://raisethehammer.org/blog/1486/ http://raisethehammer.org/blog/1486/