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Print technology produces lineal, sequential habits.
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“Print "ingrains lineal, sequential habits,"”
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The industrial revolution was a consequence of the print revolution.
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“The industrial revolution, McLuhan argues, was a consequence of the print revolution, not a parallel development.”
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Central banking operates by sequence, linearity, quantification, hierarchical authority, audited decision-making, and assumes a homogenous national economic body.
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“central banking *is* the apex institution of the Gutenberg Galaxy: it operates by sequence (inflation today predicts inflation in 18-24 months), by linearity (the Phillips curve, the policy lag, the transmission mechanism), by quantification (targets, dot plots, forward guidance), by hierarchical authority, by audited, time-stamped, paper-trail decision-making, and by the assumption of a homogenou…”
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The global village is a concept coined in The Gutenberg Galaxy and popularised in Understanding Media
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These are things people say about The Gutenberg Galaxy that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
Disputed
"The electric/digital environment has obsolesced traditional central banking."
Asserted by McLuhan · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
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Disputed
"The blind-trust regime is a Gutenberg-age fiction"
Unattributed assertion · stance: critical
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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1962
1962
publication of The Gutenberg Galaxy
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