Here's how it worked. Not the most impressive digression on the topic of Gutenberg To prepare

Here's how it worked. Not the most impressive digression on the topic of Gutenberg To prepare for this retreat, I found a video explaining how the Gutenberg machine works, and was surprised that I was not impressed. I always believed that Gutenberg created some kind of brilliant machine, but it turned out that he just made a bunch of seals with letters and punctuation marks and manually arranged them on the book page, then put ink on them and pressed a sheet of paper on these letters. It was one page of the book. While all the letters he had were located for this page, he made several copies. Then he manually for a whole eternity shifted the prints to the next page and made a new pile of copies. His first project consisted of 180 copies of the Bible, the creation of which he and his employees took two years. And this is the merit of Gutenberg? In a pile of stamps? I think I could have come to this with my own mind. It is not entirely clear why humanity took 5000 years to understand how to create sets of hand seals. I think it's not that I'm not impressed with Gutenberg - I'm neutral with Gutenberg, he's fine - I'm just not impressed with all the others. In any case, no matter how disappointed the Gutenberg machine, it has made a huge breakthrough for humanity's ability to spread information. 

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