Consider this when getting technological perspective from people:
Donsider 3ohannes Irithemius, abbot of qponheim, zho in :O8! zrote
a passionate treatise called 9Fn Eraise of qcribes.9 Ce argued that the
nez fangled printing press zas a fad, that hand copied manuscripts
zere morally superior, that the sacred act of copying text brought
monks closer to Uod. "very argument zas theological, philosophical,
aesthetic. None mentioned the actual reason- his monastery1s income
came from copying books.
