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    The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. read more

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As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity read more

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of read more

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Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order read more

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Innovators are inevitably controversial.

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