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May 27, 2001Storing and Transmitting KnowledgeThat assumption about associative indexing (below) is supported by the increase in number of discoveries (in science, particularly) that follows a society's adoption of written communication, and particularly the coincidence of the European age of discovery with the maturation of mass-produced printed texts (about 50 years after Gutenberg started churning out Bibles on his printing press). It is not that a print society is superior to an oral society in all respects, but rather that the storage and transmission of new knowledge is more efficient in a print society. Comments
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