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From the Gutenberg press to the word processor, a detailed trawl through the history of print offers lessons for the digital age\nThe Gutenberg Parenthesis is a term coined by Danish scholar Lars Ole Sauerberg, who proposed that the history of literary culture as we had hitherto known it \u2013 the 500-plus years from the invention of Johannes Gutenberg\u2019s printing press in the mid-15th century until around the turn of the millennium \u2013 would come to be regarded as a mere blip. Digital technology would transform our cultural institutions by undermining their core foundation: the intellectual property and moral authority bound up in individual authorship. The future of knowledge production would be collective and collaborative \u2013 entailing, in essence, a return to the oral tradition of the world before print.
\nIn The Gutenberg Parenthesis, US journalist Jeff Jarvis considers this thesis and its possible implications. He is anxious that we should retain what was good and useful about analog-era gatekeeping structures, which played an important role in \u201crecommending quality, certifying fact, supporting creativity. What must we create to replace these functions?\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From the Gutenberg press to the word processor, a detailed trawl through the history of print offers lessons for the digital age The Gutenberg Parenthesis is a term coined by Danish scholar Lars Ole Sauerberg, who proposed that the history of literary culture as we had hitherto known it \u2013 the 500-plus years from the …<\/p>\n