Pen, print, and pentium
Njogu Morgan
Development of the printing press was motivated by desire to enhance productivity in a familiar and important task. The outcome vastly more extensive than financial rewards anticipated its promoters, for print an essential instrument transforming social structure Europe establishing conceptual premises governments throughout modern world. Those are eroding under impact computerized communications revolution. Political consequences may be inferred from some parallels with Renaissance experience.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change