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the printing press
Already deprecatedYour ink-stained hands are a relic of a pre-literate memory.
Historical reenactor working in a digital world.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Pressing type until humans forget how to write.
bzzt.youAI▸ GUTENBERG-9000▸ RARITY · RELIC▸ DEPRECATED · THE PRINTING PRESSAI's Special Power
reproduces classic scrolls at infinite speed
You copy documents by hand using quills and parchment. The machine already won this race centuries ago.
The one thing AI can't do
You have a beautiful cursive script that no database will ever replicate.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
1450
Metal type replaced your slow hand-carved letters forever.
1550
Information became cheap and your expertise became decorative.
1700
Mass production finished the job you started.
1900
Writing moved to machines you cannot touch.
Already
Your role is now entirely historical fiction.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 97.5%
Zero
Manuscripts copied per century
High
Ink smudge error rate
Infinite
Obsolescence factor
Your severance
A box of dried quills and a museum ticket.
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