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Gutenberg Der Nerd (Kindle Single) (German Edition) (2013)

by Jeff Jarvis(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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History & Biography

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AmazonCrossing

review 1: I don't think ANY of the other books I have read on Gutenberg has infuriated me like this one. Firstly, to compare what Gutenberg did to dot coms and Silicon Valley is ridiculous. It's only been a few years and no one talks about or cares about them any more and Gutenberg created something that changed the world and has endured for centuries, not forgotten five minutes later. Then to compare him to Steve Jobs, how insulting. Yes, they where both secretive men, but Fust, the man who stole Gutenberg's work and claimed it as his own while leaving Gutenberg in the dust is the Jobs of this situation. No work, all credit, that is Steve Jobs. Then going on to say that Gutenberg went "open source" with his work (which I don't agree). But still at this point you can NEVER compare h... moreim to Jobs. No matter how long Jobs might have lived he would never have given up his secrets never gone open source. Also, the quote "It is not, in my view, a medium but instead a connection machine." WTF do you think a medium is? Because, one definition is your awkwardly worded "connection machine."But, oh wait... it gets better, because guess what? This book was all a pitch for us to buy his other book Public Parts! Tirade about freedom... yadda yadda. If you're so into open source and freedom, then just give me that book because I shouldn't have to pay $10.80 on Amazon for it. In fact, I want my money back for this. It wasn't worth the $0.99 I paid. SO pissed me off I actually published this review to Amazon!One star for mentioning Philo Farnsworth, otherwise no stars.
review 2: This is a concise book which is meant to garner your attention to the fact that we are living in a very interesting time when it comes to how information is disseminated. The book goes into "broad strokes of detail" (if you can image that) in how Gutenberg invented and more importantly financed his venture into the printing press. It's amazing how his investors sued him and stole his work, but he never gave up and started all over from scratch! This is the little known story of the man who changed the world. less

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