For one brief shining moment

Some scholars of literacy view the era of print as somewhat of an historic blip. For generations human culture was an oral culture, and only with Gutenberg became a print culture. As dominant as print culture is to us, however, these scholars see the emergence of a post-literacy culture, what Walter Ong called "secondary orality". When print culture is seen as that blip, we get what Tom Pettitt and Lars Ole Sauerberg have called the "Gutenberg Parenthesis". Wikipedia explains that the term developed:

by considering literate learning more the anomaly than the rule. He [Pettitt] considers this to be a post-Gutenberg era where knowledge is formed through digital media, delivered over the internet
Even though their very existence is dependent on the internet, the Boidem, my blog, and my website in general may well be more a part of a parenthesis - not only of Gutenberg, but of how and what we make public - than they are of a truly new era.



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