The Senior Multiplier

What 100× actually looks like — measured over 24 hours — and what 600 years of disrupted skilled labor say about who wins next. 1476, Paris In 1476, a group of Paris scribes broke into Johann Heynlin's printing shop and destroyed his press. They had a real grievance. A press could reproduce a book in a day; a scribe needed a year. The math was unforgiving: one machine, one operator, 300× the output.[1] I keep thinking about those scribes. Not because of the violence. Because of the...