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By 1500, printing presses in operation throughout Western Europe had already produced more than twenty million volumes. It took roughly 30 or 40 years for the
by keiferski 6y ago
By 1500, printing presses in operation throughout Western Europe had already produced more than twenty million volumes.
It took roughly 30 or 40 years for the press to be widely distributed around Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_the_printing_press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_the_printing_...
> I think the ubiquity of the internet is what makes people comfortable to judge it as if it is mature.
Technology isn't going to stay exactly the same indefinitely. It just seems like a complete lack of imagination about the future to me.