Disruptive Technologies are not new : print
More than a few academics ... preferred to trust the strictly learned scribal system of scholarly communication that had kept important books in circulation for centuries and that had lately spawned factory-like scriptoria capable of limited mass production. One late 15th century Dominican friar, Filippo di Strata, actually said that "the world has got along perfectly well for six thousand years without printing, and has no need to change now.” di Strata and his sympathizers were concerned that scholars turning to commercial printers would lose the benefits of scribes' editorial expertise, not to mention their direct physical control over individual manuscripts: they worried that printing would permit spelling mistakes, typographical errors and other technical faults that might mar hundreds of copies of a single scholarly work. Speaking of the threat to good spelling in a tract appropriately entitled “In Praise of Scribes”, a German Abbot concluded “printed books will never be the equivalent of handwritten codices . . . The simple reason is that copying by hand involves more diligence and industry.”