Ch 15: New News Every Day
- Due Nov 20, 2015 by 10:30am
- Points 10
- Submitting a discussion post
- Available Nov 13, 2015 at 12am - Nov 30, 2015 at 11:59pm
"The printing press not only made texts cheaper and more accessible; its real power was to make them stable.... Before print, scripture was not truly fixed. All forms of knowledge achieved stability and permanence, not because paper was more durable than papyrus but simply because there were many copies" [p. 400].
Do we have a personal responsibility to be informed? [p. 403]
"The embarrassment of riches. Another reminder that information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom" [p. 409]. Dretske: "Distinguishing information and meaning can set a philosopher free" [p. 417].
"When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive" [p. 410].
"The network learned a few things that no individual could ever know" [p. 420].
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