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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.6.18 冠鼎学院（GA）——识别·培养·考验未来的领导者 The Lessons of History The current Information Revolution is actually the fourth Information Revolution in human history. The first one was the invention of writing. The second Information Revolution was brought on by the invention of the written book, first in China, perhaps as early as 1300 B.C., and then, independently, eight hundred years later, in Greece, when Peisistratos, the tyrant of Athens, has Homer's epics——only recited until then——copied into books. The third Information Revolution was set off by Gutenberg's invention of the printing press between 1450 and 1455, and by the contemporaneous invention of engraving. We have almost no documents on the first two of these revolutions, though we know that the impact of the written book was enormous in Greece and Rome as well as in China. But on the third Information Revolution, printing and engraving, we have abundant material. Is there anything we can learn today from what happened five hundred years ago? ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century · Chapter4 Information Challenges》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)