Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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The End of the Newspaper
The end of the newspaper as a daily thing has really changed that. We do our own bundling, our own bun again - no two people are getting the same stream of information from the outside world. I used to talk to friends about the article in the times or the new yorker, but now it's complete chance whether people have seen that particular article in the mix of times articles that they read on their tablet that morning. Ah, because of the intensity of it, which does something to make up for the lack of all those years of hard wiring that you had in the old days. So that's a huge rupture in alite culture. But still, that's a big
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