The Theater of Memory
November 1, 2006
The Believer is running a piece of mine about the Theater of Memory, a sixteenth century gizmo that came about as close anyone would get to a Web browser for another 500 years.
Inventor Guilio Camillo was the Renaissance equivalent of a dotcom kid; he even coined a catchy tagline to market his invention: "turning scholars into spectators."
This piece also marks the first excerpt (sort of) from my forthcoming book about the history of the information age, about which I should have more to say over the next few months.
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