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Originally Posted by RWood
We have had several shifts before in the Dominant Media. Each replaced the prior dominant media as the main communication system for the masses. Each new media took elements from the prior and presented it in a new light and provided new tools for manipulating both it and the masses.
The first major advance was the development of language itself. From there it was writing, the codex, printing, radio, television, and now the Internet.
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Just started reading Patricia's upload of Hugo's 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' (many thanks Patricia
), and thought this snippet was kind of interesting; Hugo is describing a scene from the 15th century:
"I tell you, sir, that the end of the world has come. .... It is the accursed inventions of this century that are ruining everything, artilleries, bombards, and, above all, printing, that other German pest. No more manuscripts, no more books!
printing will kill bookselling. It is the end of the world that is drawing nigh."
The more things change ....