Given my love and admiration for the English language, I naturally chose Shakespeare as my favorite philosopher. His personal distractions in a world we now deem underdeveloped and, for lack of a better term, old, parallel our own distractions in striking similarity. Shakespeare's world specifically experiences the buzz of distraction when the printing press surfaces and dominates both the academic and social culture of his century.
Such an occurence nagged at my brain and left me with a simple question: Why did people suddenly become so busy when entrepeneurs invented tables and books? I racked my brain and scribbled ideas onto my own "table" and scraped together a few ideas:
Literacy became a universal skill applicable to every field of study when tables, and more importantly books, surfaces. Hobbyists and scholars alike jotted down ideas about woodworking, pottery, cooking, statistics, philosophy, linguistics, and the like with ease. The very act of documenting these ideas enabled their mobility within a world away from the original creators. A crafting apprentice could read a book about blacksmithing and interpret the words with his own creative twist. Essentially, readers grew thoughtfully independent as a result of their intellectual dependence on masters of certain arts. …show more content…
Have an idea about a new invention that will surly aid farmers in their harvesting endeavors? Well, Marco Soandso from Italy already published a book about an even better idea, one already a decade ahead of your current idea. It's time to work even harder, and more importantly faster, in order to stay ahead of the
Such an occurence nagged at my brain and left me with a simple question: Why did people suddenly become so busy when entrepeneurs invented tables and books? I racked my brain and scribbled ideas onto my own "table" and scraped together a few ideas:
Literacy became a universal skill applicable to every field of study when tables, and more importantly books, surfaces. Hobbyists and scholars alike jotted down ideas about woodworking, pottery, cooking, statistics, philosophy, linguistics, and the like with ease. The very act of documenting these ideas enabled their mobility within a world away from the original creators. A crafting apprentice could read a book about blacksmithing and interpret the words with his own creative twist. Essentially, readers grew thoughtfully independent as a result of their intellectual dependence on masters of certain arts. …show more content…
Have an idea about a new invention that will surly aid farmers in their harvesting endeavors? Well, Marco Soandso from Italy already published a book about an even better idea, one already a decade ahead of your current idea. It's time to work even harder, and more importantly faster, in order to stay ahead of the