4 Gutenberg printing press with movable type shortens the labour of copyists; standardised printing Luther and Dante free writing from Latin, thereby further democratising the nted word The pace quickens. Morse demonstrates the electric telegraph. " News "can be communicated in an instantly Telegraph cable laid across the Atlantic, thus linking Europe and America, reducing communication time by a factor of a million 3 Marconi invents the wireless(1895). Edison invents the phonograph Television pictures transmitted First IBM computer in 1953, which in 1977 was available as a hand held calculator Personal computer in 1982, optical disks, fiber optics, satellite transmission, cell phones, multimedia current The Internet: communication and information come together current World wide web: knowledge universalised through hypertext Although the speed of change in this century gives the impression of a revolution, the changes, in fact, represent a logical evolution of alphabetic culture As we see above, the primary separation of people from knowledge occurred as a result of the cultural elite having access to the secrets of written language. In the middle ages in Europe, this separation was visible in the structure of society-between peasants and lords, between the rabble and the educated (consisting largely of the priesthood whose education was entirely in Latin or Greek). In the time of Martin Luther these things began to- 4 - 18 Gutenberg printing press with movable type shortens the labour of copyists; standardised printing 14 Luther and Dante free writing from Latin, thereby further democratising the printed word 5 The pace quickens. Morse demonstrates the electric telegraph. “News” can be communicated in an instantly 4 Telegraph cable laid across the Atlantic, thus linking Europe and America, reducing communication time by a factor of a million 3 Marconi invents the wireless (1895). Edison invents the phonograph 1 Television pictures transmitted. First IBM computer in 1953, which in 1977 was available as a hand held calculator current Personal computer in 1982, optical disks, fiber optics, satellite transmission, cell phones, multimedia current The Internet: communication and information come together current World Wide Web: knowledge universalised through hypertext Although the speed of change in this century gives the impression of a revolution, the changes, in fact, represent a logical evolution of alphabetic culture. As we see above, the primary separation of people from knowledge occurred as a result of the cultural elite having access to the secrets of written language. In the middle ages in Europe, this separation was visible in the structure of society--between peasants and lords, between the rabble and the educated (consisting largely of the priesthood whose education was entirely in Latin or Greek). In the time of Martin Luther these things began to