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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by CydeWeys on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:54PM (#21589956)
If Gutenberg didn't invent the press, someone else would have soon after, and history would have played out essentially the same.

We ascribe too much meaning to exactly which person invented something first, as if it never would have happened absent that one person.

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