The post highlights the vitality of memory in medieval times, where scholars and people relied on it. Due to the lack of manuscripts and able writers, people often sought events to mark time and history. Old stories, tales, and poems answered the paucity of text, where history was passed down generations in these forms. The post effectively underlines different formats and ways of communication and transmission of information to different parts of the society. 'Aide-memoire,' the structure of the text used, helped transmit knowledge in forms of rhythmic tales. However, the post fails in further elaborating this phenomenon. The post goes on to generously describe the need for progress that emerged with economic growth and hence an increased demand in manuscripts. The concept of slow-growth towards the replication of text is explained exponentially with spot on examples of monasteries, which is further supported by the low understanding of people in regard with grammar and proper guidelines. The criticism that leads to the assumption about indefinite structure of storage and organization isn't supported by any hard evidence. The post, however, succeeds to highlight the main point but fails to provide any future prospect in the end.
Post 2:
The post, holistically, explains the idea of the information revolution. The beginning paragraph is misleading as it leads to the idea of 'inventions' as a whole, but not the specific concept of press printing.
The abstraction of free flow of information between countries with increased understanding of knowledge is well based on historical evidence and the negative outturn is ably detailed. The balance between the 'advantage for some and disadvantage for others' in this phase of evolution is maintained thoroughly which helps to keep objectivity in the writing. Another use of a historical figure, Martin Luther, emphasizes on the use of literature and how it shaped our history. However the ending is abrupt and requires a further analysis on the topic with a touch of the contemporary world.
