Digging into Elizabeth Eisenstein’s magisterial and seminal work on how print changed culture.

8.11: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change—Analogs to the Internet

There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how the latest tech gadget or “innovation” will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of that tech in a decade—much less a century. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond? 25–35-minute episodes released the first and third Wednesdays of the month.