Could be, but it appears that the price of paper started its decline long before movable type was invented. Using the internet analogy, movable type printing w

Could be, but it appears that the price of paper started its decline long before movable type was invented. Using the internet analogy, movable type printing would be more like the LCD flat screen, which contributes mightily to the internet (especially mobile) but well after the Moore's Laws of integrated circuits, magnetic storage, and optical communications technologies have provided the basic infrastructure.