Gutenberg industrialised knowledge. This triggered The Renaissance (spread of ideas), The Reformation (challenge to authority) and The Scientific Revolution.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not the first technology to disrupt the economics of knowledge. The history of media is best understood as a series of revolutions of information.
The first was when Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in 1440. Books that were once copied by hand could now be mass-produced quickly and cheaply. Knowledge that had been confined to monasteries and elite institutions began to spread.
