imagine a world without paper.what difficulties we will face
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imagine a world without paper.what difficulties we will face
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If the Chinese had never invented paper, many things would be different today. The movable type printing press would never have been invented because it is useless without a ready supply of paper to print on. Producing parchment is much more expensive than producing paper so less writing material could be produced for the same amount of money or resources if you had to produce parchment instead of paper. This means mass production of texts is impractical because the cost of the materials (specifically parchment) used to produce the texts is too high, making mass production far too expensive to be worthwhile. This leads to no incentive to invent something like the printing press so no one invests the time and money to do so.
Without the printing press, the Reformation would not have occurred. People like Luther and Calvin would just be names on a list of heretics whose written works had been burned by the authorities, much like Hus and Wycliffe. The success of their efforts depended on the wide distribution of their written works within society and this depended on the printing press. Without it, their influence would have been limited to small heretical factions living in the shadows or at best a specific geographical region always in danger of being invaded and destroyed like the Cathars. The Catholic Church would have dominated Europe indefinitely because it could squash any competition as heresies and prevent people throughout Europe from learning what the ‘heretics’ had to say by burning their texts.
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