Friday, October 15, 2010

the invention of print

Print communications strengthened the sense of individuality at the expense of loosening older communal ties. But, it also had the effect of connecting individuals in new kinds of affiliations and connections that stretched across broader swaths of space and time.

Print replaces human memory with tables of contents, footnotes, and indexes, freeing the human mind from continually recalling the past so that it might fix on the future.


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