Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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What Are the Greatest Ruptures in Technology?
The shape of the page is what your visual field sees easily between, you know, your two hands right in front of you. Newspapers have been on line for quite a while now but it's really taken to the last couple of years for new york times to start experimenting with artfully designed articles. i learned french by taking dictations and writing very, very precisely prescribed explications of short passages of text. In france, the great secondary schools now make it very hard, if not impossible, to do latin and greek both at the same time. And that was a form of education which in some way connects us to erasmus in the renaissance or lupus
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