Paradigms Lost The Life and Deaths of the

Paradigms Lost traces the history of the accidents, inventions, forces, eccentrics, and geniuses who accelerated information in the past, examines what happened each time they succeeded, and provides some background for what, if the past is any guide, august be coming.

Peter Printing Pants in Linotype Hell, 1993

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Part I The Birth of Type: From Hand to Lever

Primordial Scratches

15

(14)

The Machine in the Manger

29

(14)

A Certain Scrambling

43

(16)

A Happy Man, Concerned

59

(6)

The Terrible Contagion

65

(18)

Faster Than Asparagus

83

(22)

Part II The Type Age: From Lever to Machine

Cat Troubles

105

(10)

Trickle, Stream, Torrent, Wave

115

(8)

Extreme Cheapness

123

(12)

The Dam's Last Brick

135

(12)

``The Hasty Approach of Evil''

147

(14)

Complacency's Triumph

161

(12)

The World without Kinship

173

(16)

Part III The End of Type: From Machine to Math

Full Pantry, No Can Opener

189

(10)

War after the War

199

(14)

Dreams of Girl Typists

213

(12)

Buck Rogers Stuff

225

(12)

Like a Burlesque Blonde

237

(10)

Speedups and Slowdowns

247

(12)

Union's End

259

(12)

Aristocrats in Dotage

271

(8)

Part IV Life after Type

Words Out of Dots, Rolled Out of Factories

279

(18)

...And Offices And

297

(20)

One Last Transaction Cost

317

(16)

The Descent into Free

333

(20)

Bibliography

353

(26)

Index

379

(14)

About the Author

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