Close your eyes for 10 seconds. Imagine a world with no books. What would happen? Open your eyes and type what you saw in your vision.
(First book ever was the Bible by Guttenberg)
2006-08-13 07:52:58 · 57 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I can not see a world at all
2006-08-13 09:52:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Guttenberg's Bible was the first PRINTED book. The existed long before that though. There may come a time that books are no longer printed, merely reproduced on a screen from a file. Good question!
2006-08-13 07:57:54 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everyone naked.
Artist: John Lennon Lyrics
Song: Imagine Lyrics
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
2006-08-13 08:34:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first book ever wsnt the guttenberg bible.
Block printing, whereby individual sheets of paper were pressed into wooden blocks with the text and illustrations carved into them, was first recorded in Chinese history, and was in use in East Asia long before Gutenberg. By the 12th and 13th centuries, many Chinese libraries contained tens of thousands of printed books. The Chinese and Koreans knew about moveable metal type at the time, but because of the complexity of the movable type printing it was not as widely used as in Renaissance Europe.
2006-08-13 07:58:02 · answer #4 · answered by tyler_durden_project 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I see us back 5,000 years, never having progressed.
Books were around long before Gutenberg, but they were hand written by scribes, usually monks.
Books are a means of transmitting information from group to group, and from generation to generation. Before writing, that was all word of mouth. We all know how bad that is! After two generations, a minor battle in Turkey becomes the Trojan War.
No great ideas would ever have flourished, because one generation never would have learned from the mistakes of the past. How sad that would be to be living like animals after thousands more years.
2006-08-13 08:05:04 · answer #5 · answered by Karl the Webmaster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there were no books, I wonder if other means of transmitting information would follow. First came printing, then books and newspapers and letters. Then all kinds of other things. Would we have the internet without books? And if we didn't, could you ask us this question? :)
Books became a great way to spread ideas, and they really do unify the human race. Without them, I think we'd be a lot slower to learn about everything we study, and we'd have no good way to share that information other than by word of mouth.
2006-08-13 07:58:59 · answer #6 · answered by Elizabeth L J 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I saw really ignorant people walking around. How much harder would it be to learn if there were no books?
While the first book ever printed may have been the bible, the first book ever written was written long before Christ. Credit is given to the Greek author Herodotus, who wrote a book called "History" in the 5th century Before Christ which described the Greco-Persian wars. He is known as the "father of history".
2006-08-13 07:56:05 · answer #7 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
It was a long, strange and scary 10 seconds. There were no books, and no stories. Those that authored books, they were now drunks and street thugs, not earning and honest living. There were no "how to" manuals, so tradesmen became obsolete. And schools, no need, no books, no text. Oral traditions? My vision had no room, for there was no time. Too busy protecting the warriors that came to pillage and kill. No education led to apathy. And no TV and movies. Entertainment consisted of a Mad Max Thunderdoam type thing.
Very apocalyptic, very angry. What a scary vision your question produced. You have much power--use it wisely.
2006-08-13 07:59:42 · answer #8 · answered by Bruce B 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
people with excellent recall for detail and a conviction for accuracy. With stories being keep exact from generation to generation . Much like the people of the Jungles to day that have no writing system but have to the detail accounts of the wars they have had as a people and the history of how when and where their people have migrated from and what caused them to move not to mention their ancestors and where and how people have died from their clans what was the point in your question ...honestly.. did I miss it
2006-08-13 08:26:46 · answer #9 · answered by maybe ok 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A world without books would be depressing. Our society does not read much anymore as it is. "If it can't be seen, it can't be true." That's why it is so important for the news to report the news. All of it not just what it is spoon fed by the government.
2006-08-13 07:59:03 · answer #10 · answered by centrixbear 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋