When Ideas Became Copyable: How the Printing Press Ignited the First Information Revolution
Book costs dropped 68%. Literacy rates surged. Gutenberg didn’t just invent printing — he triggered humanity’s first information explosion.
Book costs dropped 68%. Literacy rates surged. Gutenberg didn’t just invent printing — he triggered humanity’s first information explosion.
A twenty-year-old Italian scholar named Petrarch was rummaging through the papal library on a dull afternoon. He wasn’t looking for anything in particular — jus