Camissa Asset Management: Black Sheep Thinking – The Printing Press

Bongani Bingwa introduces this week’s Black Sheep Thinking feature, powered by Camissa Asset Management, exploring how breakthrough ideas often challenge convention before reshaping the world. This week’s story looks at Johannes Gutenberg and how his unconventional approach transformed access to knowledge. At a time when books were rare, slow to reproduce, and controlled by elites, Gutenberg combined movable type, advances in ink chemistry, and existing press technology to revolutionise printing. The result? Books became affordable, literacy rates surged, and it helped ignite movements like the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, ultimately democratising knowledge. The lesson: scale changes power.

 

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