east, and papyrus, an import from Egypt to the south. With writing used to store knowledge, the human mind would no longer be con-strained by the limits of memory. Knowledge would be boundless.
The second information revolution, the Printing Revolution, began in Europe in the second half of the fifteenth century, with the convergence of paper, an import originally from China, but proximately from the Arab and Moorish cultures, and a printing system that the German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg assembled…
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