MDT Ep. 100: Concerning the Litigious Origins of Printing

Published: May 12, 2023, 4:18 a.m.

b'For our 100th episode, we look at one of the technologies that marks an endpoint for the middle ages, the printing press, and consider how Johann Gutenberg may be a prototype for today\'s paranoid tech tycoons and the lawsuits that so often dog them.\\n\\nToday\'s Texts:\\n\\nVan der Linde\'s, A. The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing. Translated by J.H. Hessels, Blades, East, & Blades, 1871. Google Books.\\n\\nSchro\\u0308der, Edward. Das Mainzer Fragment vom Weltgericht. Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1908. Archive.org.\\n\\nTrithemius, Johannes. "From In Praise of Scribes." In Writing Material: Readings from Plato to the Digital Age. Edited by Evelyn B. Tribble and Anne Trubek, Longman, 2003, pp. 469-475.\\n\\nMusic Credit: Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, II. Adagio, performed by Skidmore College Orchestra and made available under the CC-PD license on MusOpen.org.'