“The invention of typography confirmed and extended the new visual stress of applied knowledge, providing the first uniformly repeatable “commodity,” the first assembly-line, and the first mass-production.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 142

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