Psychology Today | 24.01.2026 00:40
First came Gutenberg, who unlocked words by taking them from the scribe’s hand and placing them in the machine. Recorded thought could now travel and persist. The work of the mind began to shift from preservation toward interpretation. Then came the internet, which unlocked facts. The library collapsed into a search box, and recall gave way to retrieval and synthesis. Knowledge became less something we carried and more something we could summon.
