8.11: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change—Analogs to the Internet

The printing press and the internet are often compared. How similar in impact are they really?

Eisenstein’s outline:

• dissemination
• standardization
• reorganization
• data collection
• preservation
• amplification
• reinforcement
• cultural effects
• the Republic of Letters

Links to things mentioned on the show:

• On context collapse: 2.02: Basketballs ≠ Pumpkins
• Our strongest take on “big data:” 6.06: A Kind of Blindness—Smart cities, “big data”, and the meaninglessness of mere information.
• The Republic of Letters
• Clarkives

• July (8.12 and 8.13): Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Brown
• August (8.14 and 8.15): The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin
• September (8.16 and 8.17): (probably) Technopoly, Neil Postman

• drawn, by Trevor Ransom. Used by permission.
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho

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