The Evolvement of Information Sharing and Access
Today, in the twenty first century, society functions through a digital media and mass production of literature. Universities function through libraries, online classes, and VPN access; medicine is made possible through the production of medical books are around the country, online access to medical research, the ability to share information with a doctor in another state; every part of society functions through the ability to share and access information at a faster rate. Information sharing and access can be seen all throughout history, however the evolvement of this was not heavily seen until the 1300-1400s when the production and desire for books became controversial. In the 1300-1400s the idea of the book was for holy use and when individuals desired fictional books it was seen as a devilish act. Through much debate, the book further involved into more production, which resulted in the birth of libraries, which resulted in the evolution of information sharing and access. This evolvement process allows for Universities, such as the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, to provide adequate access to information in order to gain a proper education through classes, such as Humanities 3990, an online class.
The idea of the book has been around for centuries upon centuries and in the 1300-1400s, the book became a massive controversy. The major reason for this controversy was the content of what one was allowed to read: “At the centre of this anxiety about what constituted suitable reading material… fiction was regarded as particularly suspect: likely to influence adversely, to stimulate inappropriate ambitions and desires, to corrupt” (Flint, 2001, 17). The anxiety reading c...
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...te. From only a few books that existed to numerous libraries to schools upon schools, information sharing and access is what has made society advance at the rates it has. Society would not be without the birth of such a powerful process that created the digital age.
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that a novel is merely a story and inviting us to read the this text not as a fairy tale, but as
...up-to-date information. Technology became so prevalent that it extinguished the desire and need to read and instead told everyone exactly what the government thought they should know and because the people became so accustomed to getting their information through these devices books became useless.
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...arena. 500 years ago there was a shift from transcription of texts by hand to a much more efficient process of duplication. The internet has made strides in making the printed book obsolete in the same way. More and more people are retiring their old encyclopedias in exchange for the internet’s fast and broader database of information. The comparison between the printing press and the internet highlights the pattern in which history unfolds. Rufus Historie is famously quoted for saying, “History follows a pattern of events that recur in different eras.” It is true. New inventions evolve and replace the old, the new inventions too become dated and are replaced by something newer. The pattern present in the evolution of handwritten texts to the printing press to the internet represents the cycle of human technological advancement; out with the old, in with the new.
People in today’s world are more open-minded and opinionated than ever before. This has changed the way literature is viewed today. There are many social groups with different ideologies all who view works of literature in their own way. Although authors express their ideas in their own words the different types of readers can interpret it with their own meaning. In one piece of literature, Dante’s Inferno, the author’s trip through hell can be viewed and interpreted in many ways. An individual can perceive different meanings from Dante’s Inferno based on their beliefs and background.
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