Chapter 1 Plentiful Work We Enjoy – A First in Human History
I don’t go to work; it’s just happening all the time. I wouldn’t call it my work. I’d call it my life.
Artist and filmmaker, Steve McQueen1
Inspirational, innovative, affordable technology that transports words, images and ideas around the world at previously impossible speeds. Sound familiar? Of course it does – it’s the world we inhabit today, isn’t it? Yes, it certainly is, but these words refer equally well to the exhilarating period in the fifteenth century when Johannes Gutenberg first brought movable type printing to Europe. His radical invention precipitated the thrilling arrival of the first printed (and therefore cheap) books. Just like today, profound innovation energized ...
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