Every two months or so, I get this very specific dream wherein I’m sitting behind the wheel. There’s some sort of urgency, it’s almost always dark outside, and I just don’t know how to drive the damn car.
Feel free to psychoanalyze! 🙃
Two women seated next to me are giggling at the fact that Friends is, in their words, “silly and at times stupid.” They would much rather watch Tom and Jerry chase each other around. It left me pondering my own inclinations.
Gutenberg invented the most important technology of the millennium and immediately went bankrupt — and so did the bank that foreclosed on him, and so did his apprentices.
Gutenberg could make a batch of 300 books for the cost of one, but there weren't enough buyers in his small, landlocked village in Germany.
It it took the better part of a century of further innovations, social changes, and setting up of distribution networks before you could have a pamphlet like Luther's 95 thesis get from Wittenberg to London in 17 days.