Printing Press
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
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8 statements about Printing Press, every show
Midha: Humanity Has Produced Only Around 20 General-Purpose Technologies
“In the history of humanity, we've only had maybe 20 or 22 or so general purpose technologies, like electricity, the printing press, that have very broad based Applications in society.”
Shipper: Physical books should return to high-priced luxury goods
“I think like books started out as luxury goods. And then because of the printing press, they became like, there is this push to make them cheaper because you needed ways to get more information into people's hands. And they're no longer necessary as cheap form…”
AI Panic Mirrors Historical Opposition to the Printing Press
“Your discourse around AI is like the discourse when the printing press was launched. People would say, this spreads misinformation. You're like, okay, By the way, the printing press was a good thing, you might have noticed.”
Argenti: AI removes knowledge barriers like printing press removed physical ones
“Compare the invention of AI to the invention of the printing press in a way that it removed a major barrier. First one was a physical barrier. This one is a knowledge barrier.”
Sam Lessin: Elites will retreat to smaller, expensive private newsletters
“What's going to happen is what happened after the printing press was invented, which is elites and people who care about the real world are going to retreat to expensive private newsletters that are great businesses, right? And smaller. And the vast majority o…”
Mostaque: AI transformation is bigger than the printing press
“I think this is bigger than the printing press. It's bigger than anything.”
Online video is a cultural shift equivalent to the printing press
“This isn't like TV. This is like the printing press.”
Bryan Johnson: Blockchain's societal impact is as unpredictable as the printing press
“I love it. It's a fantastic technology. It's that, I mean, I guess I kind of think of it like, I mean, the blockchain technology, I kind of think of it like the printing press, where when we figured out how we could, someone could write words, and it could be …”