Since the beginning of time, people have had the need to communicate with one

and other. The most common type of communication is speech, but you could not talk to

someone who lived 20 miles away. Then written language was developed, people marked

symbols on paper, stone, or whatever was available. Then hundreds of years passed, and

people who wanted to share their ideas with people had to do allot of writing, until

someone thought to make a writing machine. This machine is called the printing press.



Gutenberg's invention of the printing press is widely thought of as the origin of

mass communication-- it marked Western culture's first viable method of disseminating

ideas and information
from a single source to a large and far-ranging audience. The story of

print is a long and complax one. It may be too much to claim that print was the single

cause of the massive social, political and psychological changes it is associated with.

However, print did wield enormous......

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