CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Narcissism, Neil Postman, Prepress
27 Feb 2017
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At first writing and mathematical notation were used to store the verbal or mathematical utterances of spoken language. As their use expanded, however, literature and mathematics emerged as languages in themselves, with their own peculiar techniques for processing, retrieving, and organizing information quite distinct from that of speech. Math and the written word as a separate mode of thought from the spoken word. Standard inexpensive paper: 1st century ad in china, 12th century ad in europe. Printing: 8th century ad in china (block printing, 15th century europe (printing press) 3 individuals worked on scriptorium book: 1: author write the material, 2: scribe monks that describe the images to the artist, 3: artist making the images. Books as an internal entity, without guidance to provenance. K(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:448)ia a (cid:858)half oral half literate (cid:272)ulture that has (cid:374)o pre(cid:272)ise (cid:272)ou(cid:374)terpart today(cid:859) Before, books were made to be held in monasteries to hold knowledge.
