Zuckerberg: The Digital Gutenberg I had the privilege of spending time in Aspen last winter to partake in a Socrates Seminar—a program of the Aspen Institute—that discussed the changing role of the media. We examined how the 2016 election and social media have contributed to a decline in institutional trust, as well as how “dangerous” information spreads at a heretofore unknown speed. Since that meeting last February, I’ve been pondering a historical analogue to our current moment: the rise of Gutenberg’s printing press and Martin Luther’s use of the new technology to sow “dangerous” ideas—ideas that sowed seeds of mistrust in society’s big religious and political institutions. I published the fruit of a year of so of pondering on these ideas last week in
ZUCKERBERG, THE DIGITAL GUTENBERG
ZUCKERBERG, THE DIGITAL GUTENBERG
ZUCKERBERG, THE DIGITAL GUTENBERG
Zuckerberg: The Digital Gutenberg I had the privilege of spending time in Aspen last winter to partake in a Socrates Seminar—a program of the Aspen Institute—that discussed the changing role of the media. We examined how the 2016 election and social media have contributed to a decline in institutional trust, as well as how “dangerous” information spreads at a heretofore unknown speed. Since that meeting last February, I’ve been pondering a historical analogue to our current moment: the rise of Gutenberg’s printing press and Martin Luther’s use of the new technology to sow “dangerous” ideas—ideas that sowed seeds of mistrust in society’s big religious and political institutions. I published the fruit of a year of so of pondering on these ideas last week in