The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez
Author:Ainissa Ramirez [Ramirez, Ainissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780262043809
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Amazon: 0262043807
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Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-03-13T00:00:00+00:00
Edison created a new way to represent information in addition to written language. Words on a page had two livesâa spoken existence and a written one. But sound only had one life to live. Sound was confined to a short time span and a habitat confined between one personâs lips and anotherâs ears. Beyond these bounds, sound, like a snowflake, left no signature. For these reasons, when Edison spoke âMary Had a Little Lambâ into his phonograph, his words were a milestone of human progress equivalent to Neil Armstrongâs âone small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,â while stepping onto the moon. With the phonograph, utterances, like a babyâs first words, could be heard and cherished at any time. Without Edisonâsâor humanityâsârealizing it, however, Edison changed the shape of data. Information had undergone a metamorphosis from scribbles on parchment and words stamped on paper with Gutenbergâs printing press to Edisonâs pricks in tin.
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