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Gaetano D'Orsi
Gaetano D'Orsi

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Is Digital transformation more disruptive then Gutenberg's revolution?

570 years ago, in 1452, is the date that marks the beginning of the first book printed with Gutenberg's movable type technique (The Bible), and the start of the early modern period.

Today at the end of 2022 we are in the center of Digital Transformation, it is forever changing the way we work
and transmit knowledge and data.

But the invention of the printing machine is only one of the historical events, the Transformation is a new ERA that marks the end of HISTORY, the same as when the PREHISTORY getting ended with the invention of writing.

Professor Luciano Floridi, writes in one of his books:
"The actual generation is experiencing the transition from history to HYPERHISTORY"
HYPERHISTORY means our present and future, and some people still don't realize it ...

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