History of Science and Technology Q&A (September 22, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
The Idea of Moving Type
i tend to think that the extra kind of thinking that comes with actuytyping something may actually be helpful in formulating one's thoughts. We organize our thoughts to communicate them with language. Let's see ther questions here about, why didn't someone invent the printing press earlier? It seems to have been quite financially valuable as an engineering problem. Or lack of ontro inertia. I mean, i do know that ar the idea of movable type, which is this notion. One thing is kind of making the potato cut, potato print thing, where you are carving out something and then you're using that to make kind of a stamp. That was a thing that was around from antiquity
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