There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how the latest tech gadget or “innovation” will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of that tech in a decade—much less a century. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond? 25–35-minute episodes released the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
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episode 10: 8.10: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change—Explained
Digging into Elizabeth Eisenstein’s magisterial and seminal work on how print changed culture.
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein
Show NotesWe almost entirely ended up talking about the contents of this book specifically! And we weren’t joking about how dense it is:
A picture Chris snapped of p. 113 of The Printing Press as an Agent of ChangeWe did mention a couple other episodes of the show:
- 8.08: Jurassic Park—Explained
- on friction
- 7.09: Frictioneers
- 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
- “Alpha Orionis” by Juffbass
- “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho
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- Daniel Ellcey
- Douglas Campos
- Jake Grant
- Marnix Klooster
- Spencer Smith
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