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)

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

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