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The printing press and its effects

The shift from scarcity to abundance of information, which transformed knowledge from a protected resource into a public good and democratized authority in ways both emancipatory and destabilizing. Understanding the printing press helps explain why we now confuse access to information with understanding, and why the real scarcity shifted from words to attention.

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