The movable-type printing press was invented in China and Korea hundreds of years before Gutenberg.

· Bits and Bobs 8/18/25
  • The movable-type printing press was invented in China and Korea hundreds of years before Gutenberg.
    • However those languages had way more characters so it wasn't plausible to scale.
    • It took the printing press plus the latin alphabet to explode its potential.
    • Vibe-coding is like China inventing the printing press, but code being too hard to write safely.
    • How can you make turing-complete code as natural to talk as any other language?
    • Mass scale emergent programming.
    • Computer literacy at a massive scale, we can't even predict how large the impact on society could be.

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