>At the invention of the printing press, there were people with this same energy. Obviously those people were wrong. And if we had taken their "lesson", then hu

>At the invention of the printing press, there were people with this same energy. Obviously those people were wrong. And if we had taken their "lesson", then human society would be in a much worse place. One could argue that the printing press did radically upset the existing geopolitical order of the late 15th century and led to early modern Europe suffering the worst spate of warfare and devastation it would see until the 20th century. The doomsayers back then predicting centuries of death and war and turmoil were right, yet from our position 550 years later we obviously think the printing press is a good thing. I wonder what people in 2300 will say about networked computers...