Harold Innis Quote

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

Industrialism and Cultural Values (1950), a paper presented at meetings of the American Economic Association in Chicago, published in The Bias of Communication (1951) p. 138.

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye...

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye...

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye...

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye...