The Gutenberg imagination
Gutenberg did not develop the printing press because manuscripts were not good enough. He didn’t invent the printed book because the demand for handwritten books outstripped the supply that scribes could deliver. He invented the press because he had the imagination to implement available technology in an area no-one in Europe had previously thought abou…
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