Reading about people’s worries after the printing press became popular is very interesting, especially considering how it parallels with our current time, or more specifically, with the growth of the internet. In “The Body of the Book,” Müller discusses how the printing press has and may affect the future of preserved knowledge and historical documents. Because the printing press has made it so easy for more people to create and distribute writings of their own, Müller shows concern that with the amount of information being created, older, more valuable information will be left behind, buried under a pile of new media.
I can’t help but compare this to the internet. The internet has made the spread of information easier and faster. The concerns about having important information buried grow larger each day. It is no longer only people who can and want to write releasing information. The act of texting and typing has made things so much easier; therefore, more people will be more likely to do it. We release so much data every single day.
https://www.socialpilot.co/blog/social-media-statistics
With the amount of news stories, breakthroughs, and overall information being released each day, people worry that when something important really happens, it may be buried under the news of other things. In fact, people even theorize that this very issue is used to others’ advantages in order to cover up large stories. However, the biggest worry people have about using digital media to record writing is that it is not a physical media. Because of this, it is so much easier to lose or leak information. Imagine if the internet suddenly stopped working. How much of our important digital writing have we printed out? Likely, not enough.