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For millennia before Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press (~1,440 CE), knowledge was a proprietary asset. It was capital-intensive, existing only in hand-scribed manuscripts locked away in exclusive institutions and private libraries. It was controlled by a tiny elite who possessed the resources to create it and had the specialized training to consume it. The printing press was a democratizing force, not because it made books better, but because it reduced the cost of replication to near zero. It broke the information monopoly and transferred power from the few to the many.

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Leveling the Playing Field: The Post-DeepSeek Democratization

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    2026年

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  • Harshad Oak,
  • Monish Darda

摘要

For millennia before Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press (~1,440 CE), knowledge was a proprietary asset. It was capital-intensive, existing only in hand-scribed manuscripts locked away in exclusive institutions and private libraries. It was controlled by a tiny elite who possessed the resources to create it and had the specialized training to consume it. The printing press was a democratizing force, not because it made books better, but because it reduced the cost of replication to near zero. It broke the information monopoly and transferred power from the few to the many.