Today’s guest post is by Paul Mayze.

The Gutenberg Press changed everything.

(Stick with me here…)

Before its invention, only the extremely wealthy could afford scribes to record the written word for them.

Suddenly, the written word was available to a much greater portion of the population.

There was an explosion of ideas.

Pamphleteers could write their thoughts, get them printed, and share them with the world.

Media was democratized.

And then, over time, pamphlets became newspapers, and companies bought those newspapers and other companies bought those companies, and…well, eventually we got the likes of William Randolph Hearst and Rupert Murdoch. (more…)