How casually we take it all
Submitted by yelvington on August 14, 2006 - 9:10pmWriting for the Observer, Britain's Sunday newspaper, author John Naughton reminds us how Gutenberg's invention of movable type had unanticipated side effects. It would "undermine the authority of the Catholic church, power the Renaissance and the Reformation, enable the Enlightenment and the rise of modern science, create new social classes and even change our concept of childhood." But who knew?
And today we have Tim Berners-Lee's gift to humanity, the World Wide Web. As Naughton writes: