that's where we're going to be. You can just turn there every single week because that's

where we're focused on in this pioneer series. We begin with a photo. This is Johannes Gutenberg,

one of no doubt the most significant figures in human history. Johannes Gutenberg

changed the world in ways that few people ever have or will. He invented the movable type

printing press, 1455. Before that point, books were all made by hand. You had to literally

get a scribe and copy. Every copy was one of one. It was just a unique thing. No two copies

were identical because there was no easy way to make them. A book, if it was made at all,

was made by hand. That made them extremely expensive, difficult to get your hands on. Most

people in that day were poor and illiterate anyway. Only the wealthy could even have a book.

Gutenberg sought to bring books to people, to unleash the ability to scale the production of

books. That's exactly what he did. That also paved the way for what we know of as modern

media. We today can read the news. Not only can we go buy newspapers or have them delivered

to us and find out what is happening in the city we live in, in the country we live in,

the world we live in, but we also now, of course, have the internet at our disposal to hear breaking

news. But it wasn't always the case. People relied on those who would count cryers, who

would tell the news. You would have to hear someone tell physically the news of what was happening

in the world. But because of Gutenberg's printing press, you could not only use that same technology to make a

whole book, but you could also produce what was called a single sheet or a flyer in German,

the translation of how they referred to these was literally breaking news. He made it possible to

quickly disseminate information. One sheet of paper made, the plates made, and now you could batch

out, and they could distribute these flyers, these hand bills, with all the news going on at that

time, and that changed the game in incredible ways. It was the chat GPT of its time. And out of

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