Four years ago, during the period of the great calendar change, there was a contest to determine the greatest invention of the concluding millenium. Guttenberg's movable-type press won.
I thought the choice ill-considered but kept my mouth shut. At the time way too many people were wrapped up in the euphoria of millenarianism and it was no time to challenge the importance of Guttenberg, the man who printed the Bible.
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