The invention of the printing press was one of the most impor-tant events in human history.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. If you think about it.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.