It isn’t always obvious which technologies contribute to our modern age, and the literally ancient art of typography is certainly one technology that wouldn’t appear, at first glance, to be absolutely essential to a “new” technology.

And therein lies a lesson for entrepreneurs.

Read this http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2011/09/06/the-calligraphers-and-the-apple/

(Thanks Noah Illinsky for the tip, and Dave Kellerman for schooling me on this topic in 1983… on an Apple Lisa).