Why was paper making considered as an innovative technology? How did it make life easier or better for people?

Paper is a very old technology, which was already used by the Egyptians through writing on papyrus, but the paper we know today had the beginning of manufacture in China, through the mixture of fabrics and tree bark to form a paste that would come to become the role.

This was an innovative technology in that it accelerated communication and made historical and cultural information and records essential to human history possible. Through paper emerged the sharing of information, the dissemination of knowledge through books, newspapers and magazines, the possibility of commercial agreements, documentary records, and several other functions that enabled human development in society.