Question about Johannes Gutenberg: Someone describes the process of using government money to compile data then selling it to add a little profit. Why can this be described as an "inefficient, Gutenberg" way?

by and_andrew

That someone would be Hans Rosling. I assume this is a reference to Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the movable type printer. You can see Hans Rosling's exact commons in this TED talk at about 11:49. I know very little about Gutenberg and am curious why his name would be used in this way.

hillsonghoods

Hi there - listening to thirty seconds or so of the TED talk before the 11:49 timestamp, I think it's fairly clear that this isn't a history question per se - all that Rosling is saying with the Gutenberg reference is that the World Bank's reports are printed on paper (e.g., done in a Gutenberg kind of way) rather than distributed on the world wide web (e.g., in what we might perhaps might call a Berners-Lee kind of way in analogy to how Rosling uses 'Gutenberg'). As a result, we're going to remove this question - but hopefully this is a satisfactory answer!