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See also Elon Musk's Neuralink and the recent waitbutwhy post all about it: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neurali

• LeifCarrotson 9y ago
  To pick out one interesting point from that article: > I always assumed Gutenberg had made some genius machine, but it turns out he just created a bunch of stamps of letters and punctuation and manually arranged them as the page of a book and then put ink on them and pressed a piece of paper onto the letters, and that was one book page. ... That's Gutenberg’s thing? A bunch of stamps? Gutenberg's genius was figuring out that while it took a long time to cast and to set up the stamps - probably longer than just writing the page - he'd Automated his process and could print At Scale. (His other major contribution was a good screw press, and, more importantly, the metalurgy and a casting system for the letters).