Blogging, 18th-Century Style
Harvard Historian Robert Darnton on Blogging, 18th-Century Style – The Getty Iris.
An 18th-century information society?
It bugs me when people say, “we live in the information society,” as if ours is the first one that ever came into existence. Every society is an information society, according to the technologies of the time.
(Revised and republished April 21st, 2025)