Erik, you now have Jean's Full Attention. In all senses but the literal you can see the math equations floating around their head, hear the tick-tick-tick of the clockwork behind their eyes. They're Concentrating on this idea with the sort of gravity normally reserved for small children and mountain gorillas.

"...Well. I'm not a student of History and that was Malkuth's Floor, but I'd guess an explosion of extelligence and information retention. Inventions and techniques could be recorded, helping to ablate the loss of knowledge and need for re-invention that the deaths of their creators or masters might represent. Bookkeeping gets easier, a massive boon for administration...gosh, I guess that would have been a requirement for the rise of corporations or whatever immediately preceded them, they can't have just emerged ex nihilo, hahahhaha, nothing does that. Increased administration means megaconstructions become so much easier since you can organize labor efficiently - generously assuming managerial competence, of course." Big smile! Jean's having fun with this thought exercise. "And if everyone can read that opens up new industries for books! Like these! A whole new market opened up for entertainment, education, one that needs workers on every level...wow..."

They look down at the smut they're taking notes about. "...This really changed the world, huh. Neat!"