The fascination of the new
Robert S. Shulman
New products create history. Think about the printing press. The telephone. The airplane. The automobile. The computer. Each of those products changed forever the way everyone lives, works, and plays. It is not inventions, per se, but the products born with those inventions that change the world.
The creation of moveable type didn't affect much of anything until Guttenberg made it the integral part of a printing press. The wheel, which many consider the greatest invention of all time, and the combustible engine individually were great, but it was only when they...