What’s holding up the computer revolution?

Bran Ferren: “I can’t help but wonder that, at some earlier conference, Gutenberg got up and was talking about, ‘Why the hell aren’t people buying my bibles?’ He died penniless. The fact that a Gutenberg bible, in that time, would cost the equivalent of $80,000 in today’s money and that no one could read probably did limit his market somewhat.”