Impact on the Modern World
The Printing Press had a great impact on the modern world, it spread knowledge and ideas quicker, dropped the high rate of illiteracy, and it eased the labor rate in the process of making books.
The Invention of the Printing Press during the Renaissance made spreading ideas and knowledge a lot easier and quicker. One idea that was spread through the invention of the printing press was religion; thousands of Bibles were printed using the printing press. More people read these Bibles, and religion spread. Most of the earliest books had to do with religious subjects. Upper and middle class people bought and read these Bibles, possibly causing them to begin to follow that religion, if they didn't already have one. The Printing Press also made progress in critical scholarship and science faster and more reliable. This impacted the modern world, because now we have thousands of modified versions of the printing press and printers all around the world, so almost anyone can print anything to get their idea across.
The Printing Press also impacted the modern world by dropping the high rate of illiteracy. The invention of the printing press almost eliminated the job of hand copying books. Books that were printed by hand, were more expensive because people had to go through long hours of labor to copy each word. Only upper class people could afford to buy books. Since the printing press was invented, less people had to copy books, because the machine took their place. Therefore, the books printed from the printing press were cheaper. Now more people could afford to buy books, which eventually raised the literacy rate. This made people smarter, and they could teach their children, and so on, impacting our world today. With out the printing press, most of the population in the mid-15th century would still be illiterate, making a bigger part of our modern world illiterate as well.
Lastly, the Printing Press impacted our world today, because it eased the labor rate in the process of making books. Before the printing press was invented, individual people had to copy each and every word from one book to another. This could take weeks, months or even years to complete just one book. It was a very long and hard process, which could be considered to be a form of labor. Almost every single book and document was a manuscript. But when the printing press was invented, that took the place of the people who had to copy the books. It was faster, and it just stamped the words onto the page, which probably only took a few hours, instead of someone sitting there and re-writing a book for several weeks. All though working the Printing Press required a small amount of human labor, it wasn't near as challenging or time consuming as copying a whole book by hand multiple times was.
In conclusion, the printing press impacted the modern world greatly, because it made the spreading of knowledge and ideas quicker and easier, it helped to make more people literate, and it made the process of copying books much easier, and the labor rate went down.
The Invention of the Printing Press during the Renaissance made spreading ideas and knowledge a lot easier and quicker. One idea that was spread through the invention of the printing press was religion; thousands of Bibles were printed using the printing press. More people read these Bibles, and religion spread. Most of the earliest books had to do with religious subjects. Upper and middle class people bought and read these Bibles, possibly causing them to begin to follow that religion, if they didn't already have one. The Printing Press also made progress in critical scholarship and science faster and more reliable. This impacted the modern world, because now we have thousands of modified versions of the printing press and printers all around the world, so almost anyone can print anything to get their idea across.
The Printing Press also impacted the modern world by dropping the high rate of illiteracy. The invention of the printing press almost eliminated the job of hand copying books. Books that were printed by hand, were more expensive because people had to go through long hours of labor to copy each word. Only upper class people could afford to buy books. Since the printing press was invented, less people had to copy books, because the machine took their place. Therefore, the books printed from the printing press were cheaper. Now more people could afford to buy books, which eventually raised the literacy rate. This made people smarter, and they could teach their children, and so on, impacting our world today. With out the printing press, most of the population in the mid-15th century would still be illiterate, making a bigger part of our modern world illiterate as well.
Lastly, the Printing Press impacted our world today, because it eased the labor rate in the process of making books. Before the printing press was invented, individual people had to copy each and every word from one book to another. This could take weeks, months or even years to complete just one book. It was a very long and hard process, which could be considered to be a form of labor. Almost every single book and document was a manuscript. But when the printing press was invented, that took the place of the people who had to copy the books. It was faster, and it just stamped the words onto the page, which probably only took a few hours, instead of someone sitting there and re-writing a book for several weeks. All though working the Printing Press required a small amount of human labor, it wasn't near as challenging or time consuming as copying a whole book by hand multiple times was.
In conclusion, the printing press impacted the modern world greatly, because it made the spreading of knowledge and ideas quicker and easier, it helped to make more people literate, and it made the process of copying books much easier, and the labor rate went down.