Until the 15th century, people were taught to remember vast quantities of information. Feats of memory that would today qualify you as a freak â the ability to recite entire books â were not unheard of.
Then along came the Mark Zuckerberg of his day, Johannes Gutenberg.
New York Times-Chef Bill Keller beobachtet in The Twitter Trap wie Twitter, Facebook & Co. unsere Aufmerksamkeitsspanne beschneiden – und vergleicht das gekonnt mit Gutenbergs Buchdruck (siehe oben). Fein, fein und lesenswert.