Ispectrum Magazine Ispectrum Magazine #08 | Page 34

R ecording the story of humankind is an important, sometimes arcane job assigned to scribes, printers, publishers and librarians. Scribes in ancient times received training to record and duplicate error free books, laws and stories. The scribes took care in their use of the ink, paper, format, corrections, stor33 age and destruction of documents. The printing press, heralded as one of the most significant inventions of humankind, employed many of the same standards used by the scribes. The scribes and printers of their time were critical of how they recorded history. They ensured today’s generations the ability to