Nowadays, books have become such a ubiquitous and almost obsolete object, that it is interesting to re-trace the evolution of books and the impact it has begotten\u00a0upon societies throughout the centuries. Books, particularly before the invention of the internet, have played\u00a0a major role in the transmission\u00a0of information between generations and the spread of new ideas.\u00a0Without books, history is silent, knowledge does not get passed down, and science never evolves. Like author Barbara W. Tuchman claimed, “Without books, the development of civilization\u00a0would have been impossible. […] Books are humanity in print.”<\/p>\n
I found\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Goodwillie’s explanations of how various\u00a0civilizations invented\u00a0their own\u00a0idea of how a book should be created and what information it should contain fascinating. Although starting with the desire to spread the truths found in the Bible, written contents slowly deviated from religion and Christianity to share practical knowledge (seen, for instance, in Denis Diderot’s Encyclop\u00e9die) and\/or knowledge about the\u00a0world (Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry). It’s interesting to think\u00a0that without book innovation and the constant improvement civilizations added\u00a0to it, our current society\u00a0would know nothing about history.\u00a0It makes me question if the digital age we now live in is going to play a similar role in protecting history, or destroy what books had been accomplishing for centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nowadays, books have become such a ubiquitous and almost obsolete object, that it is interesting to re-trace the evolution of books and the impact it has begotten\u00a0upon societies throughout the centuries. Books, particularly before the invention of the internet, have played\u00a0a major role in the transmission\u00a0of information between generations and the spread of new ideas.\u00a0Without … <\/p>\n