>Figure this. If it hadn’t been for Johannes Gutenberg, we probably wouldn’t have been able to read the signs on the buildings behind his statue.

We’d still be identifying services and artisans by symbols, because the only people who could read or write were the learned, with access to hand-lettered manuscripts.

We still do, to a great extent.

Not implying that McDonald’s customers are functionally illiterate, though….

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