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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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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might be easier to analyze the printing press
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Was it a factor in the decline of guilds or did I imagine that?
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One thing that i think gets overlooked abt the printing press is that they were actually quite centralised and easy for governments to control
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Dudes' controlled print over the whole of England https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Stationers_and_Newspaper_Makers#:~:text=The%20Worshipful%20Company%20of%20Stationers,a%20royal%20charter%20in%201557 ….
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Key thing about the internet is that it is (or used to be...) many to many Printing is some to many (not everyone can afford to publish and distribute) and broadcasting is few to many (far higher entry costs). Web has far lower barriers to entry than either
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This, of course, depends on the way you use it. Facebook is siloed - it's some to some (friend to friend) combined with some to many (pages, shared posts etc). Twitter and tumblr are many to many, which is their greatest strength
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