The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain.
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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