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Information is currency.
Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press, was the youngest son of a nobleman and merchant, Friele, who served as a "Master of Accounts" for the mint in Mainz.
Because Friele had married a non-noblewoman, Gutenberg's mother Else, his sons could never serve in the "minting house cooperative." In the medieval German system, only pure-blood nobles could be "trusted" to mint the currency.
Nevertheless, Gutenberg drew on his father's heritage to become a goldsmith. He used his skills to develop an alloy of lead, tin, and antimony that was so effective for creating durable type letters that it is still in use today. He also innovated a new type of mould used to cast those letters and combined those technologies with a system of movable type. The printing press was born, giving rise to the most important information revolution in human history since the invention of writing.
Money is an information technology. Beware of who you exclude from the use of that technology--they may just start a revolution that opens it up to everyone.
Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press, was the youngest son of a nobleman and merchant, Friele, who served as a "Master of Accounts" for the mint in Mainz.
Because Friele had married a non-noblewoman, Gutenberg's mother Else, his sons could never serve in the "minting house cooperative." In the medieval German system, only pure-blood nobles could be "trusted" to mint the currency.
Nevertheless, Gutenberg drew on his father's heritage to become a goldsmith. He used his skills to develop an alloy of lead, tin, and antimony that was so effective for creating durable type letters that it is still in use today. He also innovated a new type of mould used to cast those letters and combined those technologies with a system of movable type. The printing press was born, giving rise to the most important information revolution in human history since the invention of writing.
Money is an information technology. Beware of who you exclude from the use of that technology--they may just start a revolution that opens it up to everyone.