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Discuss “Executive Privilege: Gutenberg would have loved Google”

Somewhere between 40,000 and 2 million years ago, humans began using verbal communication that consisted of more than meaningless grunts. The world changed.

Six thousand years ago in what is now Iraq, Sumerians developed the first known system of writing. The world changed again.

Just over 560 years ago, Johannes Gutenberg popularized the movable type printing press — Bi Sheng invented movable type in China, 400 years earlier — allowing ideas to move between people, places and times, with more speed and accuracy than ever before. The world changed yet again.

Imagine what it would be like to bear witness to the utterance of the first word, the carving of the first ideograph, the first test-run of Gutenberg’s press.

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