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Upright and pious Pierre le Vénérable, Peter the Venerable, a twelfth-century monk from the Cluny monastery in France, visited Spain and observed that the Arabs and Jews there, rather than using animal skins, wrote even religious texts on leaves made from old clothes. . . He recognized that this was a clear sign of a degenerate society.
Throughout history, the role of technology and people's reactions to it have been remarkably consistent. . .
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Studying the history of paper exposes a number of historical misconceptions, the most important of which is this technological fallacy, the idea that technology changes society. It is exactly the reverse. Society develops technology to address the changes that are taking place within it.
Mark Kurlansky, Paper : Paging Through History, W.W. Norton & Co. 2016
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