“As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldnt necessarily be good.” PeopleWayHumansBookPhilosophyCoursesEuropePressesBe GoodComplainingPrintingHuman ThoughtFloodingPrinting Press Author:James Gleick
“One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.” WorldWayHumansMadeTimeUnderstandingChangeAbilityChangedStandardsDuesSavingMade ItClockZoneSavingsDaylightTelegraphTime ZonesSaving TimeDaylight Savings Author:James Gleick
“I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.” HumansWellsMeanI CanBookLastsRememberTaughtWhat It Means To Be Human Author:James Gleick
“Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.” HumansLongStoriesRunningInformationBecomingMediumsLong RunsHuman Thought Book:The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Source: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
