The Chinese invented printing, but their writing system required a large number of typefaces, which made for very high up-front capital costs to print even a single short book. Centuries after the slow dawn of Chinese printing Gutenberg in Germany, taking advantage of a concise phonetic alphabet, requiring only a small number of typefaces, invented a printing method that required much less up-front capital than Chinese printers. The Internet has even more radically lowered up-front capital costs to publish than did the Gutenberg revolution.
Chinese printed works were vast but rare. European books were smaller but still too long. Internet works are the actual length a reader needs, they are (or soon will be) available practically everywhere, and often readers can interact frequently with the author.
Most readers don't want to spend most of their time reading verbose works by single author, when a greater variety of more relevant and thoughtfully concise works are available from a much larger pool of thinkers. Prior to the Internet they had much less choice: books were just the way educated people learned and taught. (And many people still believe that reading and writing books is the sine quo non of being educated, just as many Europeans in 1500 still lauded the superiority of scribal methods and scholastic thought).
Magazines and newspapers involve smaller form factors, but they still draw from a very small pool of authors. These authors can only write in detail about a wider variety of subjects by pretending to know things that they don't: they take human institutions far more complicated than a single human can possibly comprehend and boil them down to a series of hypersimplified theories, what in less authoritative contexts we'd call ideologies or conspiracy theories.
Instead of being forced to read a vast number of words each from a small number and variety of authors, already widely read by many other people (making your reading of them often quite intellectually redundant), on the Internet you can read much less per-author text (and thus, potentially at least, far more thought out per word) from a much greater number and variety of authors.
The Internet also can be more interactive with more select groups than the old face-to-face + snail-mail + books regime— providing much more opportunity for Socratic dialog, glossing, and other intellectual processes that were too often neglected after Gutenberg. And while the Internet can produce far higher amounts of garbage, mixing up thoughtlessly popular haystacks with thoughtfully rare needles, search engines and links often make wading through these vasty spaces much easier. The Internet allows you to meet people who share your specialized interests and dialog with them, making possible specific interactions that rarely happened in the old regime. However, without actually reading the content, i.e. while initially searching for it, it is hard to distinguish thoughtless (even though textual) content from the thoughtful content -- a big reason why at least for the moment book-literacy retains its aura of intellectual superiority over Internet literacy: scholarly publishers with their monetary incentives often take the time to select the most thoughtful works for our consideration. Nevertheless, they lack the knowledge needed to select the most relevant works to match the wide variety of interests and knowledge of their readers, or to judge well among works outside their specialties.
Much as more efficient and speedier transportation networks enabled labor and natural resources to be brought together in a much greater variety of ways, so does the Internet by providing more direct and speedy connections between minds enable a far greater division of knowledge than was possible with in the face-to-face+snail-mail+books regime. However, in contrast to the economy of things, that division of knowledge is largely (so far, at least, and still mostly for the foreseeable future) unmonetized: the information economy is a vastly different beast than the economy of things.
That said, there is a good book(!) that covers much of this (along with of course a bunch of introductory material redundant for most readers, as well as the typical trivial or thoughtless text added to pad it out to books size): Smarter Than You Think by Clive Thompson.
tl;dr if you thought this blog post was too long, why would you ever pick up a book?
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Catherine Classic [Includes Multi6 Languages] For Pc [6.3 Gb] Highly Compressed Repack Download
Catherine Classic - is a puzzle platformer video game developed by Atlus. The game was released by Atlus for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in Japan and North America in 2011 and for Microsoft Windows by Sega in 2019.
Explore the pleasures and horrors of love as Vincent, a man with a hard choice to make: marry his long-time girlfriend Katherine or move on to the incredible blonde he just woke up next to named Catherine! But beware! Make the wrong choice, and you could end up dead. Delving into themes of free will and the delicate nature of relationships and the choices we make, this action-adventure-puzzle game is an experience unlike anything else.From ATLUS' all-star team that brought the Persona series to life, and animation by Studio 4°C.
• Plus the more stages that Vincent overcomes, the more Complex the strategies required to progress will become.
• Move the blocks to create a path and climb a nightmarish tower while fleeing from the epic monsters chasing you.
• Others explode, Damaging Everything around them & the Sheep in the Nightmare needs to Survive until Morning.
• Lowest levels of blocks fall as time passes. If you're not constantly moving, you'll fall with them. Stop wasting time.
• Difficult various obstacles impede Vincent's path some Blocks are traps waiting to skewer new & Unwary climbers.
Game is updated to latest version
2. GAMEPLAY AND SCREENSHOTS
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♢ View detailed instructions for downloading and installing the game here.
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CATHERINE CLASSIC [INCLUDES MULTi5 LANGUAGES] - DOWNLOAD LINKS
PASSWORD FOR THE GAME
Unlock with password: pcgamesrealm
4. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS GAME
➤ Download the game by clicking on the button link provided above.
➤ Download the game on the host site and turn off your Antivirus or Windows Defender to avoid errors.
➤ When the download process is finished, locate or go to that file.
➤ Open and extract the file by using 7-Zip, and run the installer as admin then install the game on your PC.
➤ Once the installation is complete, run the game's exe as admin and you can now play the game.
➤ Congratulations! You can now play this game for free on your PC.
➤ Note: If you like this video game, please buy it and support the developers of this game.
Turn off or temporarily disable your Antivirus or Windows Defender to avoid false positive detections.
(Your PC must at least have the equivalent or higher specs in order to run this game.)
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
• Processor: Intel Core i3 (2.9 GHz) or AMD equivalent or faster
• Memory: at least 4GB System RAM
• Hard Disk Space: 20GB free HDD Space
• Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8 Series or AMD RadeonHD 4870 or faster video card
Supported Language: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish language + Japanese voice are available.• Processor: Intel Core i3 (2.9 GHz) or AMD equivalent or faster
• Memory: at least 4GB System RAM
• Hard Disk Space: 20GB free HDD Space
• Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8 Series or AMD RadeonHD 4870 or faster video card
If you have any questions or encountered broken links, please do not hesitate to comment below. :D
Sunday, March 24, 2019
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Saturday, March 9, 2019
Trade Inquiry March-2019
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Could you kindly send us your Latest catalog and price list for our trial order.
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Sinara Group Co.,LTD
This is Daniel Murray and i am from Sinara Group Co.,LTD in Russia.
We are glad to know about your company from the web and we are interested in your products.
Could you kindly send us your Latest catalog and price list for our trial order.
Thanks and Best Regards,
Daniel Murray
Purchasing Manager
Sinara Group Co.,LTD
Monday, August 20, 2018
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