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Print was a great improvement of the older
alphabetic writing. Print is a technology not only of
moveable types and of the first mechanization of a
handicraft. It had all the startling implications that
automation now has for us with regard to the
reorganizing of work. Print reorganized the work
pattern by specialism. Instead of a man knowing all
aspects of his craft, he learned one operation only,
and work was broken up into bits. Humpty Dumpty