The past two millennia has been riddled with inventions that have revolutionized the world Significantly: electricity, the Indo-Arabic number system (from zero to nine), weapons, birth control pills, the idea that we are all the same, the idea of being unconscious (Freud), the organization of science, the valve Thermionics –DeForest in 1915 — which followed by the transistor in 1945 –Bardeen and Shockley — gave rise to our electronic age, the current educational system, among other lots of devices and ideas. However, it seems to me that the printing press has changed the world more than any other invention. But why did such simple technology have this enormous influence? And why, after 500 years, has no one invented a superior replacement?
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The past two millennia has been riddled with inventions that have revolutionized the world Significantly: electricity, the Indo-Arabic number system (from zero to nine), weapons, birth control pills, the idea that we are all the same, the idea of being unconscious (Freud), the organization of science, the valve Thermionics –DeForest in 1915 — which followed by the transistor in 1945 –Bardeen and Shockley — gave rise to our electronic age, the current educational system, among other lots of devices and ideas. However, it seems to me that the printing press has changed the world more than any other invention. But why did such simple technology have this enormous influence? And why, after 500 years, has no one invented a superior replacement?