The Grammar of Video

Posted June 04, 2016
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When Gutenberg invented the prinitng press in 1452, he could have gone down to his basement the next day and printed The New York Times. 

He had the technology.

What he lacked was the idea of what to do with it.  It would take 350 years to figure that out.

With video in all our hands now, we have the technology to do more than YouTube videos or CNN - we just have to figure out what...

 


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