Who would have thought that learning about the printing press would have proven to be so interesting? This is not the place for me to go into details about how Gutenberg’s invention changed the world (I’ll leave that for an upcoming essay) nor do I wish to explain its inception, construction and mechanics. Instead I would like to remark that if it had not been for Gutenberg’s printing press, then this event of you reading my words through the technology that now sits before you might never have been plausible let alone possible. Even more fascinating is the realisation that both of us may not have developed intellectually enough to even understand this subject matter.
Take a moment to reflect.
How can you not help but to admire and respect Gutenberg for his ingenuity, his foresight and his humanitarianism?
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