But in those days we waited until the next morning to read the printed word.
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Over time, with the printed word, knowledge was no longer so easily contained or controlled, and it was transformative.
But I think this market has the potential to boom a decade or two from now as nostalgia sets in for the printed word.
The book and subsequent film are arguably most memorable for their unique depiction of elderly forest-dwelling intellectuals who counter the ban on the printed word by memorizing whole works of literature.
Carr's book, which will be released later this month, is sure to draw venom from the Web consultants and new-media professors who have happily heralded the end of the printed word.
Technology has done to the marketing of recorded music what it did a decade ago to the publishing of the printed word--lowered the barrier to entry down to just about zero.
Each controversy came with different reasons, different accusations, and different levels of fall-out, but they all ended with the same result: A public apology via printed word, viral video or TV ad.
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The printed word has fought a rear-guard action against not only computers and television, but also a whole horde of digital upstarts from DVDs and video games to mobile phones, iPods, YouTube and now the mobile internet.
But it's a measure of the dominance of oral culture over the printed word both here and in the rest of Africa that Ivory Coast's leading book shop chain says it's only sold four thousand copies of Houphouet Boigny's Imaginary Plots.
It might be getting more difficult to be a science consumer if your taste runs to the printed, papery word.
These words were printed by your magazine: ''Guys: A word of advice.
As New Orleans has just become the first major city to suspend a daily printed newspaper, the city has become somewhat of a social experiment in testing the relevance of print and the written word.
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