Gutenburg & TV

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" Johannes Gutenburg is famous to history for the invention of the printing press, a development that made the large-scale production of books far easier and less expensive than it had ever been before. It has been argued that this invention led to what may be called an Age of Print, an age dominated not only by the printed book itself, but by a style of thought shaped by the linear, sequential, analytical process of reading.

Consider a hypothetical case in which what Gutenburg invented was not the printing press, but the television set. How might the world that followed have been different? We must first acknowledge that this assumption requires as precondition an entirely different development of technology in the late medieval and Renaissance eras. Television cannot exist in isolation; it requires electronic technology, which in turn requires a.."

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