Status Updates From Superbloom: Le tecnologie d...

I am so locked into this book. A more analytical and statistical take on the digital minimalism book I recently read. Getting into the data that shows how these advancing technologies are decreasing meaningful connections, and now we’ve moved all the way up to current media and connection.

Very interesting, and eye opening. Can’t wait to finish it wow

“It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio.” -Joseph Goebbels, the Reich’s communication chief, p46

“Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.” -Harold Innis, p24

So many thoughts already. So far we’ve only hit telegraph, telephone, and radio, but so many important historical events like WWI, the Titanic, and Hitler’s rise to power, had been influenced by these new technologies.

Learning so much and I’m enjoying his philosophical perspectives on the important of friction in media consumption. Excited to keep reading !