27 May
2006
27 May
'06
2:45 a.m.
On May 26, 2006, at 7:10 PM, Henry Baker wrote:
What happened? Or what didn't happen? Was the printing press part of the answer? But the Chinese had printing.
Was the human race set back by its failure to backup important files?
Apparently the printing press didn't catch on in China because of the much larger character set. Calligraphy was much more highly developed and prized though. Perhaps the printing press allowed meme evolution to really take off, because memes were able to replicate into other people's brains with much greater fidelity. --Erik N