Modern Connection: Printers

 -Even though the 5 inventions listed happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago, they still hold relation to some products we enjoy to this day. An example is highlighted below.

As a modern North American society, we all still use paper, which was explained as an invention in China and (later) discovery in the Middle East. The only difference between all of that time and contrasting cultures is that we use different plant fibers in order to create paper, due to geological location. As an example, we cannot still have most of our paper be created from bamboo fibers, because that plant isn’t native to North America, so we have to adapt. We don’t necessarily use only one type of plant to create the cellulose fibers needed to give the paper its structure, but we usually don’t use the same kinds as the Middle East or China did. As for printing, the differences widen greatly, as we don’t use a similar structure to the Gutenberg printing press anymore. Nowadays, there are more and more new advancements to the modern-day printer, like laser-jet printing, and a big difference that makes it much more efficient is that everything is automated; you wouldn’t have to place any letter casts in a specific format before being able to print the sentences you want, in fact, there are no letter casts in a printer anymore, thanks to AI developments.

            The impact of this continuous improvement in printing techniques has led us to a society where anyone can share ideas with much more ease, much more access and much smaller of a price tag. Places of education have greatly benefited from this, as a result, and books have become multiple times cheaper than they were a few hundred years ago. All of this have led us into a more consumption-based learning system that holds more potential to teach faster.

A modern-day laserjet printer (Amazon)

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