Tootfinder

"What up until then an individual could only write once, or at best chisel in stone, was now applicable anywhere and everywhere. The separation of action and function was the condition for most of the developments of the modern age; individualism, democracy, protestantism, capitalism, and nationalism. The technology of printing and typesetting has fundamentally altered our habits of perception."
An absolutely fantastic article about the history of typography.

#21 Typography: History and Technology
The history of typography: technology and culture