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Age of the Feuilleton
Hermann Hesse • The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
Aux alentours de 1455, un orfèvre allemand du nom de Johannes Gutenberg quitta Strasbourg,
Nicholas Carr • Internet rend-il bête ? (French Edition)
It is no accident that the Age of Reason was coexistent with the growth of a print culture, first in Europe and then in America. The spread of typography kindled the hope that the world and its manifold mysteries could at least be comprehended, predicted, controlled.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
During the 180 years from 1820 to 2000, world output per person increased roughly eleven times, leading to an equally dramatic fall in the global rate of extreme poverty—from around 90 percent in 1820 to roughly 10 percent as of 2015.
Jeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology. Gutenberg’s 1450 invention of metallic movable type elevated writing into a central position in the culture.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
