I hadn’t seen Jay Walker’s Library of Human Imag­i­na­tion TED talk before. It’s an inter­est­ing take on the print­ing press, the book, and read­ing, and how they’re not as con­nected as we think they’ve always been. The whole talk (short at just eight min­utes) is inter­est­ing because of the way Walker links dif­fer­ent items together.

“The book was not dri­ven by read­ing. In 1455, nobody could read, so why did the print­ing press suc­ceed?… The print­ing press was dri­ven entirely by the print­ing of for­give­nesses and had noth­ing to do with reading.…”