All the goods that research participants considered to have potential for profitable production can be made with types of moveable factories that are available.
I have met the team from Six Apart, the creators of Moveable Type blogging software, just once.
Twenty-first century civilisation has been transformed in a way without precedent since the invention of moveable type.
Until the invention of moveable type, writing was often the job of specialists who spent long periods generating singular, quite perishable texts.
This revolution in technology – considered by many the most significant since the invention of moveable type in the 15th century – allows virtually anyone to create and share their news and thoughts.
Here is an excerpt:"It took a generation, about 65 years, before Martin Luther emerged to aright the new medium of moveable type and set it on a more balanced path.
But since at least 20,000 pocket Bibles were delivered by professional scribes working with quill pens and ink made from oak gall and iron salts centuries before the milling of paper or the invention of moveable type, the supply of unborn animals would have been unsustainable.
You may have heard those lines this weekend at "Shuffle," a performance at the New York Public Library that paired Elevator Repair Service, of "Gatz" fame, with Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin, of Moveable Type (a.k.a. the cool display in the lobby of the New York Times building) fame — as exciting a collaboration for techy literary theatre geeks as the Traveling Wilburys were for cool dads.
Danish academic Thomas Pettitt's theory is that the whole period after Gutenberg's invention of the printing press - of moveable type, the text, the 500 years of print-dominated information, between the 15th and the 20th centuries - was just a pause; it was just an interruption in the usual flow of human communication.
The new application will be free for all users of Moveable Type Pro, the site's premium service, once it leaves beta in 2009.
