HPR 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: First Amendment To The United States Constitution, Xerography, George Soros
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Tech shift to digital copying copying = scan, store, modify, print. Question: what was the idea of the photocopy that stood to be so broken and displaced? (p. 83) Answers involve intention and promotion of xerox technology and the photocopies and the people who made them. P. 83-84 originally, haloid xerox imagined xerox would be useful to produce 5-20 copies. Too few to be worth the time or expense. Xerographic reproduction was illegal in the ussr until its collapse according to evil billionaire, Based this chapter on printers of the mind by mckenzie. Concerned with early printed books . he saw creeping into textual studies. (p. 85) Ellsberg, the xerographer, took sections of the history home from his office and returned each section after secretly photographing them at night in his friend"s office. Despite their keen and conflicting interest in the pentagon papers, neither the newspapers nor the state had much explicit interest in the papers as xeroxes.
