really fantastic economic history by @thocpodcast in episode 99, discussing the transformation of the West's information environment by chinas transmission of paperhttps://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/99-tang-17-the-battle-of-talas/ …
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in many ways it seems like the internet is serving as a similar revolution in information transmission. only you know playing out over years or decades rather than centuries. and it would be good to make some predictions, tho maybe the effect is so large that this is hopeless
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It made state administration at larger scales possible while simultaneously creating a need for a literate bureaucracy. If you want a real mind bender look up the impact of filing cabinets.
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I'd say policy harmonization
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Something about the easier it is to record and spread info the less meaningful it is. Carvings: State management (in the CS sense) Paper - Stories Internet - Memes Even easier to disseminate information? - “I’ll show you information overload”
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The huge economic expense of parchment is hard to wrap your head around, and as a geologist I am amazed no one talks about the difficulty of finding and preparing good clean clay for akkadien tablets.
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One of the reasons we get so much Classical literature from the Arabs is that they had paper whereas Europe had parchment
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