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The printing press or the art of movable type that would trigger an explosion of Christian civilization, with the Gutenberg revolution in Germany, had been invented centuries earlier by the Chinese, but with no similar effect.
CNN: Building On A Golden Age
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Gutenberg's 15th-century printing press revolution succeeded in putting software at the center of the world.
FORBES: Digital rules
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Shirky believes that we are on the crest of an ever-surging wave of democratized information: the Gutenberg printing press produced the Reformation, which produced the Scientific Revolution, which produced the Enlightenment, which produced the Internet, each move more liberating than the one before.
NEWYORKER: The Information