CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Neil Postman, Prepress, Phonograph
10 Oct 2020
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Postman - printing press and the new adult. New ways to make a previous technology useful. The work of designers, marketers, or innovative users adapting this technology into their lives. Every new technology of that age had trouble finding a market. Eventual uses get made by peoples desire. First uses of technology are odd imitations of existing technologies. Notes hardware is much less profitable than software services. The best design does not always win! In fact, it loses more often than it wins. Quality /usefulness and whether something spreads widely is not highly correlated. Explaining how to get to next place. Aid to biz men to dictate letter to their secretaries. A child was simply a not yet grown adult. That the intellectual condition of europe in the mid 15th century made the printing press necessary. (25) Prior to printing, all human communication an antisocial act (27) We may say, thenflowering of childhood (28)
