communications and cultural transformations in early modern Europe
794 pages
English language
Published Aug. 2, 1997 by Cambridge University Press.
El libro es muy interesante en general (aunque hay ratos en que se hace algo pesado). Puede pecar de que faltan datos en muchos aspectos, aunque es algo reconocido por la propia autora. Además las inferencias que hace al respecto del impacto de la imprenta en la sociedad son bastante consistentes. En conjuntto es un texto bastante instructivo
back to the 90s, in a good way
People in tech sometimes say we overestimate change in the short run and underestimate it in the long run. On page after page of this, I kept repeatedly thinking "oh, I've underestimated the impact of the internet on humanity" — because the book does an amazing job showing how much we underestimate the many impacts of the printing press.
(It's also long, and snarky, and yet maybe too short. I can't do it justice in this space.)
