Responding to Where We Are Today: Books (Melissa Perello)

I read Melissa's post about how books and the printing press have changed the world, and I really agree with what she's saying. It's super interesting to me that the creator of the (more well known) printing press was just this regular guy who wanted to make some money. He wasn't a super genius or  someone who was set on saving the world, but he changed a lot of things anyway. Without the printing press and available books, we wouldn't be able to enjoy our technologies or even have them because we wouldn't be literate or advanced enough to have iPhones, most likely. It would totally change the way we live life today. I also agree that America has a good literacy rate, but it's not what it should be. Americans pride themselves on living in a land where education is available to everyone, but we still have kids who can't read or are struggling to learn, and not much is being done about that. Melissa made a lot of really good points in her post, and I agreed with them all.