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I haven't read it but I did write about some of that disruption of the printing press in The War for Children's Minds. khmezek.substack.com/p/…
The printed word took control away from the church and allowed people to find information on their own without an intermediary interpreting it for them. Certainly, the Internet did a similar thing…
I haven't read it but I did write about some of that disruption of the printing press in The War for Children's Minds. https://open.substack.com/pub/khmezek/p/a-battle-for-the-minds-of-children
The printed word took control away from the church and allowed people to find information on their own without an intermediary interpreting it for them. Certainly, the Internet did a similar thing, making all information available and those in power are battling now to control information once again. One way they are doing it is to flood us with so much information of little value that we become zombies, unable to absorb anything just stare at the screen. Another interesting thing about making all information available is that it destroyed the innocence of childhood. A book that is great on this topic is Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death.