by David Tollen | Jul 5, 2023 | The Early Modern Age
This is the second of three posts on general purpose technologies (GPTs) – and on what their history tells us about artificial intelligence. Click here for the first post in the series. 2. The Printing Press: A Revolutionary General Purpose Technology German inventor...
by David Tollen | Nov 21, 2022 | The Early Modern Age, Linguistics & Philology
William Caxton translated and produced the first book printed in English (Recuyell [Collection] of the Historyes of Troye), in 1473 or 1474. He also set up England’s first printing press, in 1476, and he became the kingdom’s first retailer of printed...
