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    truthiness1 month, 2 weeks ago

    around the civil war era the steam powered cylinder press was invented. this allowed for printing different info on two sides of the same paper at once. and faster. newspapers and books were cheaper and easier to print than ever before. literacy rates in America jumped from 40 to 90 percent (according to military enlistment records which would be the commoners)

    the first significant social effect was Yellow journalism which led to the Spanish-American war.

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      truthiness1 month, 2 weeks ago

      in 1991 CERN released the WWW an information sharing technology which was an enhancement on the Internet created by DARPA that had been released to the public a few years earlier.

      the immediate result was to connect individuals around the world who would otherwise have no contact and to provide people with easy access to a large and varied repository of information. and Porn. the long term effects remain unknown.

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        truthiness1 month, 2 weeks ago

        1998 saw the first commercial release of Print on Demand Presses which allow printers to print 1 copy of a text for the same cost as 500 copies (per copy). making short run printing a viable economic option. the prophesied effect being greater access to the marketplace for authors and printers without having to rely on the megacorporations. it remains too soon to know the actual effect.

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          truthiness1 month, 2 weeks ago

          in the 1960s-1970s a professor of Communications at University of Toronto named Marshal McCluhan theorized that culture existed in a cycle of identity to communication medium to identity to medium, etc. Saying that our ideals were expressed in the way we communicated and, in turn, the way we communicated to each other affected our common ideals (culture).

          This man who died in 1980, prophesied the digital communication based on what he saw at the time.

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