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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (136415)6/12/2004 4:08:03 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Maurice: The distance from Illinois to New Zealand is growing less and less. Amazing what the Internet has done to facilitate communication. My son is teaching at the University of Shanghai. Every morning, I get on the Internet, crank up my VoverIP connection, and we sit there and chat for free as if he was sitting right next to me.

Remember what Gutenberg's invention of the printing press did? It led to a revolution in printing which then affected the publication of books and pamphlets, which then gave people ideas and information denied them heretofore, then to Luther's 95 Theses, then to the Protestant Reformation, then to the Thirty Year War, then to the disestablishment of most of the autocratic empires of Medieval Europe, then to the French and American Revolutions, then to the Russian Revolution of 1907, and on and on.

I think that the new freedom to communicate on a global scale brought to us by virtue of the Internet revolution is likely to spawn as many 'revolutions' in our world as Gutenberg's invention did in his world.

And wouldn't you know it. Gutenberg died a poor man. Unscrupulous 'investors' beat him out of his rights of ownership and then made themselves rich in popularizing his invention.
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