> When the printing press was invented, it didn’t usher in a new era of creativity but instead the first few centuries resembled modern Hollywood It ushered in

> When the printing press was invented, it didn’t usher in a new era of creativity but instead the first few centuries resembled modern Hollywood It ushered in massive creativity! The early printshops were innovation hot-beds and quickly developed textual things that had never existed at scale before, like dictionaries, newspapers, political cartoons, encyclopaedia, technical drawings / manuals lacking copy errors, local maps, etc.