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Copyright

Stephen Robertson

Published On

2020-10-22

Page Range

pp. 35-48

Print Length

13 pages

4 Spreading the word

  • Stephen Robertson (author)
Chapter of: B C, Before Computers: On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data(pp. 35–48)
The previous two chapters were about point-to-point or person-to-person messages. The author now talks about messages for broadcasting to a group of people or to the world. The first great invention for broadcasting is the library – the origins of this idea are discussed, as well as its development up to the medieval period. Next comes printing and publishing. Then cinema, radio and television, and the Web.

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