Influence is what influence does.
I agree with the Gutenberg’s, printing is the killer app that allowed the masses to read and understand all of the ancient and contemporary views (1436). Technology may not be considered high brow enough to compete with religion or great thinkers but if we are talking influence. From War in Peace to the Bible to the back of your cereal box, Printing is influence.
Influence: Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, physical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted.
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