The Gutenberg Press on YouTube -- God Bless the BBC and Stephen Fry
The BBC has a wonderful program tracing history of Mr Gutenberg, his printing press, and of course his famous bible. Stephen Fry has produced a wonderful piece for the BBC (in six parts here on YouTube) that brings to life the invention that, as Mr Fry says, does more to define us as a civilization than anything since.
And the growth of the moveable-type technology rivaled even the growth of the Internets - in just a few decades after the first book was printed... as Fry says, "...from zero books to 50 million in twenty years..."
No small irony in the fact that this blog is based on software called MoveableType. Literally, there would be no Internet without the one thing we all take for granted in our world - the printed word.
Wonderful program.