Question

Changes in the print technology in last 100 years.Write about the changes explaining why they have taken place and what are their consequences.

Answer 1

FIRST IN INDIA THE PEOPLE HAVE PUBLISHED THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE PALM LEAVES.FIST THERE WAS HAND PRINTING...MANY POETS WROTE THEIR POEMS ON THE PALM LEAVES BY USING HAND LIKE POTHANA,THIKKANA,ERRANA- THESE HAVE WRITTEN THEIR SHATAKAS(CONSISTING OF 100 POEMS)ON THE PALM LEAVES AND CALLED AS THALAPATRANIDHI...AND THEN AFTER GUNTENBURG HAS INVENTED THE PRINTING PRESS THERE WAS A CHANGE IN THIS...THE RICH PEOPLE IN INDIA WHO OFTEN TRAVELED TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES THEY HAVE INTRODUCED PRINTING PRESS IN INDIA.SLOWLY IN THE PLACE OF  HAND PRINTING-PRINTING MACHINE HAVE COME.THEN PUBLISHING/PRINTING BECAME VERY EASY..BUT PRINTING MACHINE COSTS MUCH IN THOSE DAYS SO THE PUBLISHING OF BOOKS WERE VERY RARE..AND THEN TECHNOLOGY HAS GROWN MANY BOOKS HAVE PUBLISHED TILL NOW.NOW AT PRESENT THERE ARE MANY MILLIONS OF PRINTED BOOKS...SO THE PEOPLE WHO LIKE READING BOOKS HAVE STEPPED HIGHER IN THE PRINTING OF BOOKS AND THE PRINTING OF BOOKS HAVE BCOME MORE BCOZ OF THE INCREASE IN POPULATION,ETC