CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Robert E. Ornstein, Language Technology, Woodblock Printing
10 Oct 2020
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The print revolution: themes reocurring: dissemination of knowledge through new media has profound social, economic and political consequences and that social, economic and political change have an impact upon the adoption of new media. Greeks: havelock describes the importance of the greek alphabet and a simple, phonetic and language technology. Craft literacy vs common readers: made possible storage and retrieval of massive amounts of information thus enabling enormous sophistication and complexity. After the roman empire the middle ages": the axe makers gift by james burke and robert ornstein, 5th-15th centuries, collapse of centralized governments, rise of inward- or god-ward - looking christian church, depopulation, de-urbanization, tribes, wars, disease. Ong: orality and literacy primary orality: literacy, secondary orality. Literacy: makes new ideas/new ways of thinking possible. Books before printing: next week, paper and the development of the printing press, and contexts/ consequences this huge transformation.
