Circulation of information -
The printing press was an important step towards the democratization of Knowledge. Furthermore, book production was a commercial enterprise.
Power to the printer - The innovation of the printing presses brought the idea that new printers could set up their own presses and print anything they liked. In order to avoid this, the stationers' company petitioned the king for a system to control what was printed. Today we call this copyright law.
Herwig argues that Google library would represent the culmination of a democratization of knowledge that began with the invention of printing. The little Google search window would be the gateway to the content of the 32 million books, 750 million articles, 25 million songs, 500 million images, 500,000 films, 3 million television programs and 100 billion public Web pages. To store all of this gigantic volume of data -- estimated at 50 petabytes -- would still require a building the size of a small town's library. But in the future, all of that knowledge will be only a mouse click away -- and will fit on a single iPod.
Koenig had designed a steam press. The first production trial of this model occurred in April 1811.
The first newspaper "Times" was printed by a steam press, based on the theory of Koenig's invention.
The printing press was an important step towards the democratization of Knowledge. Furthermore, book production was a commercial enterprise.
Power to the printer - The innovation of the printing presses brought the idea that new printers could set up their own presses and print anything they liked. In order to avoid this, the stationers' company petitioned the king for a system to control what was printed. Today we call this copyright law.
Herwig argues that Google library would represent the culmination of a democratization of knowledge that began with the invention of printing. The little Google search window would be the gateway to the content of the 32 million books, 750 million articles, 25 million songs, 500 million images, 500,000 films, 3 million television programs and 100 billion public Web pages. To store all of this gigantic volume of data -- estimated at 50 petabytes -- would still require a building the size of a small town's library. But in the future, all of that knowledge will be only a mouse click away -- and will fit on a single iPod.
Koenig had designed a steam press. The first production trial of this model occurred in April 1811.
The first newspaper "Times" was printed by a steam press, based on the theory of Koenig's invention.
Koenig's 1814 steam powered printing press
The hidden revolution in the book publishing industry began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as digitization began to transform various aspects of the production process.