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Johannes Gutenberg transformed his knowledge of wine presses into a printing machine capable of mass-producing words.
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When Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type a half-millennium ago, he also gave us immovable text.
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Ever since Johannes Gutenberg developed movable type around 1439, making machines for putting ink on paper has been a growth industry.
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For the most part, the last disruptive change in the book industry was back in the 1400s, when Johannes Gutenberg printed a bible with movable type.
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Not since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, or Alexander Graham Bell the telephone, has a human invention empowered so many and offered so much possibility for benefiting humankind.
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But he assembles strong scientific and anecdotal evidence that the way brains work has been altered with every new medium introduced, from Johannes Gutenberg's printing press to Lee De Forest's audion, and that the Internet may be the most effective mind-mutating technology of all time.
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That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.
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He called it the phonograph, and it took a long time for librarians to figure out that the echoes of speech and music that Edison and his successors etched on discs were as important a part of our collective memory as the words that Johannes Gutenberg and his successors printed on paper.
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