![]() ![]() So, that’s by way of preface to what I was saying. We know, for example, that manuscript publishing continued for three centuries after Gutenberg, and really flourished. And, in fact, we’ve learned a lot about Gutenberg’s day: the change, perhaps, was not quite as rapid as people had thought when they refer to it as a revolution. ![]() ![]() But let’s say that the assertion is that the means of communication are changing as rapidly, as dramatically, today as they did in Gutenberg’s day. And, it’s a term that can be used in lots of different ways. I mean, I’ve read about revolutions in menswear and revolutions in football styles of defence and so on. Well, first I should say that the word ‘revolution’ is used very loosely, in general, so I said that after some hesitation. ![]() How do you feel this revolution is changing the way knowledge or information is spread? Robert Darnton, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future In The Case for Books you wrote that ‘the explosion of electronic modes of communication is as revolutionary as the invention of printing with moveable type’. In a 2011 interview, I asked the American cultural historian and academic librarian how he sees the future of the printed word… ![]()
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