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 11: 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?
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein Show NotesEisenstein’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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- Daniel Ellcey
- Douglas Campos
- Jake Grant
- Marnix Klooster
- Spencer Smith
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