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Why the Book is Humanity’s Most Important Invention

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Even in our increasingly digitized world, the print book endures as a technology at the heart of human culture. Throughout its 550-yearhistory, the book has transformed at the hands of countless printers, bookbinders, typographers, and illustrators who have yet to see their own stories of innovation on the printed page.
In “The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives,” today’s guest Adam Smyth demonstrates the role of human agency in the evolution of technology, from binding to paper-making, typography to illustrations, and libraries to small presses. Beginning with the early printed books made by Dutch immigrant Wynkyn de Worde in 1490s London and ending with the zines in 2023 New York City, we look at the evolution of the print book through eighteen biographical portraits of bookbinders, typographers, illustrators, and more.
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Even in our increasingly digitized world, the print book endures as a technology at the heart of human culture. Throughout its 550-yearhistory, the book has transformed at the hands of countless printers, bookbinders, typographers, and illustrators who have yet to see their own stories of innovation on the printed page.
In “The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives,” today’s guest Adam Smyth demonstrates the role of human agency in the evolution of technology, from binding to paper-making, typography to illustrations, and libraries to small presses. Beginning with the early printed books made by Dutch immigrant Wynkyn de Worde in 1490s London and ending with the zines in 2023 New York City, we look at the evolution of the print book through eighteen biographical portraits of bookbinders, typographers, illustrators, and more.
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