A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:46:00 +0000

Technology has always hurt our minds – or so we are always told. This article by Vaughn Bell on Slate explains.

http://www.slate.com/id/2244198/pagenum/all/

Worries about information overload are as old as information itself, with each generation reimagining the dangerous impacts of technology on mind and brain. From a historical perspective, what strikes home is not the evolution of these social concerns, but their similarity from one century to the next, to the point where they arrive anew with little having changed except the label.

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A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.