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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @orto 6 Feb 2024 \ on: Gutenberg’s printing press = Bitcoin of the Middle Ages BooksAndArticles
Gutenberg's printing press entered Turkey more than 300 years after its invention. The result of this was the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. A society that breaks its connection with reading cannot survive.
If we exaggerate a bit, an unwanted consequence of the book printer was 200-300 years of bloody wars between catholics and protestants in Europe: the catholic church lost a monopoly of explaining Bible because the others could read it too…
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