Response i- Printing Press

Lecture 3: The Printing Press What I found fascinating from this was how short of a time ago the printing press was actually made. If you think about it, it was only a few hundred of years ago. It is crazy how this single invention shaped the future of writing for the majority of the world and sparked the Renaissance, also. I enjoy the fact that within 30 years, 100 presses were made, and by the 1500s there were printing presses in over 2500 cities, which was a very fast rate at the time. I am also shaken by the effects of the invention, quickly after. First, a lot of people became literate and helped change the world. New maps and languages were made to change and shape everything, also. The lecture really fascinated me, and could be simply taught as a great history lesson also. Without what Johannes Gutenberg first made, we would absolutely not be where we are, and not had become what we have already become.