Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Impact of Technology: A Helpdesk During the Middle Ages

There has been much discussion on this blog about the affect of technology on our culture, especially upon print. Certainly, whenver something comes along that revolutionizes the way we do things, as computers have, there is an adjustment period where we transition from the old to learning the new. The following Norwegian video quite humorously depicts such a shift, as it shows a helpdesk during the Middle Ages when books first came about.

2 comments:

Fred Hudson said...

Hysterical! The funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

Anonymous said...

I like it when he cannot open the book at the end!