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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one thing that is interesting to me were there any regularities about the cultural shifts that accompanied the wide availability of cheap writing surfaces in different societies? any trends that we can suss out? any curious variations from those trends?
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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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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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this is a neat, tight framing. I like it, thank you :)
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