Show S S. S Johnson Wins Printing Honor Steven Johnson a senior at Bountiful High School is the winner of the Printing Week essay con th rough rough- out the states state's senior high schools Steven is the son of Gordon A. A and Joyce Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son 1997 Penman Lane Boun Boun- THE TilE year ONE scholarship in Graphic Arts at Utah Technical Technical Technical Tech Tech- College at Salt Lake will be awarded at the annual Printing Week banquet Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day January 18 in Salt Lake City The winning essay PRINTING By STEVEN JOHNSON Printing is civilization Printing Printing Printing Print Print- ing has moved man from the village into the world Printing has moved him from his own doorstep to the mountains oceans plains rivers and people beyond PRINTING HAS given him the great thoughts of the past and in turn will allow his thoughts to be the great thoughts of the future Printing has given man manI I pew lew new ideas and new ideas have given man revolution Printing has directly and indirectly indirectly in in- indirectly in- in directly revolutionized mans man's way of living and mans man's way of thinking And most importantly importantly importantly im im- im- im printing has revolutionized revolutionized revolutionized revo revo- mans man's ability to change idea he had to as now make it emotionally attractive IT ALL started with Gutenburg Gutenburg Gutenburg Guten- Guten burg and it hasn't ended yet Through the advent of the printing press the ideas of the past were able to reach more and more minds stimulating them causing more and more new ideas The Bible was released from the chosen few into the hands of the masses changing forever forever forever for for- ever the religious up make-up of our western way of life MAPS AND charts whetted mans man's appetite for knowledge as to what lay beyond his is own shallow coastlines As Asmore Asmore Asmore more came to know the concepts concepts con con- concepts of the past more began to doubt their never before doubted validity giving birth to modern science First came the printing press and then the world began to change and change and NO LONGER did the transmission transmission transmission trans trans- mission of ideas depend on the spoken word or rare written hand-written manuscripts Suddenly the amount of knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge possessed by man began began began be be- gan to grow and grow Modern rodern n history came into being Before the printing press a man with a good idea was like an island in a sea o of ignorance The amount o of f change he could bring about by his new idea depended d solely on his ability to communicate communicate com corn that idea to his fellow fellow fel Cel- low men And not only di dihe did d he have to communicate the th e idea he had to as ow make it emotionally attract FOR EXAMPLE take away the emotional connotations o othe of f the word freedom and i it t doesn't seem to be such a desirable thing So it is wit with h any idea What is more nothing unites unite s a people more than an emotional emotional emotional emo emo- affinity with a common commo n ideal And before the printing press there was no way o of f I i r i e. e Fr i 1 1 r r r 6 STEVEN JOHNSON making an emotional appeal to a large number of people at the same time TAKE THE American Indian for example If the Indian had been able to unite emotionally against the white man things might have turned out dif dif- As it was the Indians Indians Indians In In- for obvious educational reasons were unable to make use of the printed page and just how much emotional appeal appeal appeal ap ap- peal can you pack into a smoke signal And so the world changed The printing press had started it all by its ability to spread new ideas to all men Soon many of these ideas became so commonly accepted that they were declared to be human human hu hu- hu man rights perhaps the most important right being the right to print what one pleases CHANGE BECAME and is isan is' is an accepted way of life And the role of the printing press goes on The fight for Cor human rights has has- not ended Freedom Freedom Freedom Free Free- dom and the freedom of the press go hand in hand Only a society that fears freedom fears an uncontrolled printing press Where the right t to print new ideas dies civilization in its true form dies and only the slavery of the mind remains LET US hope the the heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat heart heart- beat of civilization will never cease |