The History of Media Technology

Justin Peters: I think you can understand what's going on by just looking at actual media technologies and their dominance or declining dominance over time. The middle of the 20th century, up until about the 70s was a period of the grand broadcast media. He says that had a much more profound political significance than a lot of people realize. Peters: Now we're living in a time where people are opting into their own realities completely. And there's really no mechanism or infrastructure for those competing realities to calibrateor to adjudicate which one is more accurate,. he says.