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<p>Books are everywhere. They’re so common, they’re easy to take for granted. But my guest argues that they’re worth fully appreciating — because the book isn’t just a container for content; it’s a revolutionary technology for shaping culture and thought.</p>
<p>Joel Miller is a former publishing executive, an editor, a book reviewer, and the author of <a href="https://amzn.to/4qakyoZ"><em>The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future</em></a>. Today on the show, Joel argues that to appreciate the power of the book, you have to look at its design: how it’s constructed, how we interact with it, and how its evolution transformed the way we think, learn, and communicate. He walks us through a fascinating history of the book as a physical object, from Augustine reading under a fig tree, to medieval monks introducing word spacing and punctuation, to the printing press’s world-altering explosion of information. We also explore how novels changed our emotional and social intelligence, how silent reading birthed individual interpretation, and why, even in an age of video and AI, books still matter.</p>
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Podcast #1,097: The Idea Machine — How Books Changed the World (and Still Matter)
