The Consequences of the Era of Literacy

One of the consequences of the era of literacy was that it had this consequence of converting humans into mediocre machines. So individual human beings were trained to be unreasonably or more than usual good at rapid and high fidelity calculation. And we used them to do that, which enabled a whole big increase in bureaucratic capacity. But it has the enormous dehumanizing characteristic of vastly up-regulating certain capacities out of out of all proportion to a whole human.