The Machine Stops: IPV6 and the Growth of the Internet

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 3, 2007 5:44 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Gary Richmond
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How could Gutenberg and Caxton have known that the invention of the printing press would be a massive force for the democratisation of knowledge and central to the transformation of a feudal society into the beginnings of a recognisably modern world via the Renaissance and the Reformation? The ability of printing presses to produce a massive volume of information, especially on religion and science, helped to break the elitist monopoly of the Roman Catholic Church.

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