Ocupation: Linguist
Life: b. December 7, 1928
Birthday: December 7
Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.
source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.
topic: Technology, Differences, Decision, Printing Press, Capital Investment, Desktop Publishing, Desktop, Advanced Technology