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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.6.28 冠鼎学院（GA）——识别·培养·考验未来的领导者 Just as important as the reduction in costs and the speed of the new printing technology was its impact on what information meant. The first printed books, beginning with Gutenberg's Bible, were in Latin and still had the same topics as the books that the monks had earlier written out by hand: religious and philosophical treatises an whatever texts had survived from Latin antiquity. But only twenty years after Gutenberg's invention, books by contemporary authors began to emerge, though they still appeared in Latin. Another ten years an books were printed not only in Greek and Hebrew but also, increasingly, in the vernacular. And in 1476, only twenty years after Guteberg, the English printer William Caxton published a book on so worldly a subject as chess. By 1500, popular literature no longer meant verse——epics, especially——that lent themselves to oral transmission, but prose, that is, the printed book. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century · Chapter4 Information Challenges》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)