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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Making Books

This video makes me wonder how, although technology has innumerable benefits, some aspects of culture will be lost if we don't retain at least some working knowledge of older technologies:

Posted by Ethan Fosse at 4/03/2012
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I'm a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Harvard University and a Doctoral Fellow in Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. My research focuses on the quantitative analysis of culture. I have written about culture and politics, network analysis, and poverty. You can reach me at efosse@fas.harvard.edu.
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