A great follower is aware of the human tendency to excuse or rationalise the behaviour of our own tribe, but is still willing ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man of letters, in possession of a goodly number of books, must be in need of a ladder.

The basic question is: Why, if the Gutenberg press spawned the Renaissance and then ... one other mystery — why Korea continued to use wood block printing after movable type printing was invented.

The basic question is: Why, if the Gutenberg press spawned the Renaissance ... Korea continued to use wood block printing after movable type printing was invented. Indeed, metal movable type ...

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Joop Berkhout, a naturalized Nigerian (originally Dutch), who passed away in Ibadan recently at age 94, was clearly a doyen of publishing, having served ...

Saraswati’ was launched in Allahabad, by a Bengali gentleman. Beyond setting a new benchmark in Hindi literature, Saraswati ...

In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg brought Europe the printing press, an invention that broke the monopoly on knowledge previously held by elites. DeepSeek’s achievement joins this tradition of making ...

Technology has always been a transformative—and often disruptive—force in the media ecosystem. From Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in 1450 to Samuel Morse’s telegraph in 1837, ...