| The machine stops: IPv6 and the growth of the internet | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 10:34 PM | |||
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How could Gutenberg and Caxton have known that the invention of the printing press would be a massive force for the democratisation of knowledge and central to the transformation of a feudal society into the beginnings of a recognisably modern world via the Renaissance and the Reformation? The ability of printing presses to produce a massive volume of information, especially on religion and science, helped to break the elitist monopoly of the Roman Catholic Church. | ||
| Complete article at Free Software Magazine. | |||