Response 1: Gutenberg

In all of the this lecture the thing that I found most interesting, was that, like with a lot of history, what you learned in elementary school was not the entire story. Normally in an elementary/middle school lesson plan, we would glaze over the subject just saying, Gutenberg invented the printing press yadda yadda yadda and that would be it, we'd be done. But in this we learned that not only was he not the first to 'invent' the printing press, but he was also not the last. With similar concepts and ideas spreading across the centuries around the world, each new one improving on the last. The only thing that Gutenberg did, was make someone else's idea a heck of a lot more efficient. Which I understand made books a lot more affordable and in turn increasing literacy. But all in all, he gets a bit more credit than he deserves, there's a lot more to the printing press than just one persons innovation.