RE: SV: [xml-dev] Tim Bray on "Which Technologies Matter?"

From
Bullard, Claude L (Len) <>
To
"'Atchley, John'" <>,
Date
2002-03-19T14:40:32Z
ID
<2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E4306FEEA0E@HQ5>
Thread
RE: SV: [xml-dev] Tim Bray on "Which Technologies Matter?"
That would have been my first guess but John 
said it was stable by the 1800s so I was guessing 
that it took a series of systems and market changes 
to drive that out.

len


From: Atchley, John [mailto:]

> Just curious.  Did a technical innovation 
> (eg, automated typesetting, typewriter keyboards) 
> drive the convergence and subsequent stabilization?

<guess quality="dubious" subjectExpertise="zilch">
	My bet would be that it was directly or indirectly driven by the
invention of movable type.
</guess>