Printing industry drives five centuries of change:

Iran’s culture minister

Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi on Friday called the printing industry the “driving force” behind every major revolution of the past five centuries, crediting print with shaping the modern world.
Speaking at a ceremony marking International Workers’ Day at Bank Melli Iran’s Printing and Publishing Company, Salehi paid tribute to workers lost in the Shahid Rajaei Port incident, IRNA reported.
Salehi described print workers as “artists” and said humanity has seen two major turning points: First, the discovery of fire, and second, the invention of printing. He said the latter allowed people to “discover and express their infinite human dimensions.”
“Printing has been the engine behind all modern revolutions,” Salehi said, naming the Renaissance, the 17th-century scientific revolution, political upheavals in France, Russia and China, as well as the telecommunications, electronic, digital and artificial intelligence revolutions. In each case, print played a “pivotal and driving” role, he said.
Salehi called print “not just an episode in life, but the dawn of humanity’s continuous movement” over the past 500 years. He praised the industry as “art and even beyond art,” noting that the “fabric of many great arts is tied to printing.”
He also called it “culture and beyond culture,” saying print is woven into books, media and advertising, and “industry and beyond industry,” as many sectors depend on it.
Workers in printing, Salehi said, “hold a lofty position” and “help humanity along many paths of progress.” Printing, invented in the mid-15th century, is widely recognized for fueling the spread of knowledge and sparking the modern era.

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