literally fell off the wall with print, and the types 
were scattered hither and thither. But print also 
created a new environment. Any technology creates 
a new environment, a new set of relationships 
among people. Print created the public. Before 
printing no kind of handwriting was capable of 
creating a public. It wasn’t strong enough or 
powerful enough technologically to create what is 
called a public. With print came into existence for