
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself



The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
amazon.comRevolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Martin Gurri • 4 highlights
amazon.comAt first, most of humankind's ideas and stories were fleeting, bound to voices and memories as impermanent as the wind. With writing they solidified. And with paper, they became immutable objects capable of travelling through time. The medium, especially in its modern form, revolutionized knowledge, art, and the sciences. It liberated thoughts by... See more