What if You could spread your Ideas? What is your favorite piece of technology?
The Renaissance: Johannes Gutenberg & Steve Jobs
Printing Press O Gutenberg combined existing technologies much like Jobs O Movable Metal Type + Press = Printing Press
Videos O Cartoon demonstration (1:50, no sound) Cartoon demonstration (1:50, no sound) O Live demonstration (3:14) Live demonstration (3:14) O Storybots (1:34 kind of annoying) Storybots (1:34 kind of annoying)
Johannes Gutenberg (circa ) O German Goldsmith & Printer O Developed the Printing Press O Struggled to be successful O Died recognized but not famous Hofmann Title O Most successful publication: Gutenberg Bible
Medieval Chained Libraries
Social & Intellectual Impacts O Mass Production of Printed Material O Literacy O Information Explosion like with the Internet O Circulation of Information & Ideas leads to: O Printing Revolution O Scientific Revolution O Technical Revolution O Religious Revolution O Linguistic Revolution How many of you know how to fly a private jet?
Gutenberg Bible, first mass produced bible: "In the authority of all the saints, and in compassion towards thee, I absolve thee from all sins and misdeeds, and remit all punishment for ten days." -Johannes Tietzel Big Publications
Knowledge CHUNK Johannes Gutenberg Printing Press (combination of movable metal type and Press) Renaissance (Europe from 14 th – 17 th c.) Europe, Germany -Influence on Society through availability of information and knowledge. -Knowledge and Education increases. Information is more abundant, cheaper, more reliable, more diffused. Who? What? When? Where? Why?
Assignment O Watch 60 MINUTES Interview on Steve Jobs: ntentBody;storyMediaBox O Write half to one page in your Journals. Consider the following questions and address at least 2 of them: 1. How do you think S. Jobs will be remembered in 50 or 100 years? 2. Has the lesson on J. Gutenberg changed or influenced your answer? 3. How important is Gutenberg’s work, how about Job’s work? What is similar in our time to the Renaissance?