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What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is nothing more than propaganda for a personality cult. What is important about printing presses is not the mechanism, but the authors.
What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is nothing more than propaganda for a personality cult. What is important about printing presses is not the mechanism, but the authors.
Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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- Jaron Lanier
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- Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Jaron Lanier: documented birth year 1960; activity date not established. Wikidata Q92862, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92862 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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