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Response to Impacts of Printing Press

During our class discussion of Mesopotamia, we talked about Bi Sheng and Gutenberg and how the printing press evolved through the centuries. I was most interested in the impacts the printing press had on societies. Learning the impacts something has on a society always interests me because you have to scratch the surface of the topic to figure them out and the way populations react to a new phenomenon is often surprising. Things that you would never think about often happen. 
I think it is most important to acknowledge that the printing press brought about shared, consistent knowledge among people because it led to so many other things. For example, because of the shared knowledge people had, they were able to make new scientific discoveries, have better health and medicine, and create new inventions. Now that media and communication is so common and easy to access we never recognize the strength it has and how it pulls us together. I appreciated this lesson because it brought me to recognize the significance of press today.  

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