What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is...

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the...

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has...

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.