The Facsimile, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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It’s easy to take document duplication for granted in our modern age, but our digital ease follows centuries of mechanical innovation and millennia of human specialization in the form of the scribe. In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe explore the history and invention of the facsimile.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Munga Shatekler and it turns out astrology is way more widespread than any of us want |
| 0:06.6 | to believe. |
| 0:07.6 | You can find it in major league baseball, international banks, kpop groups, even the White House. |
| 0:12.9 | But just when I thought I had a handle on this subject, something completely unbelievable |
| 0:17.0 | happened to me and my whole view on astrology changed. |
| 0:20.6 | Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, give me a few minutes because I think your ideas |
| 0:24.5 | are about to change too. |
| 0:26.0 | Listen to Skyline Drive on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your |
| 0:30.8 | podcasts. |
| 0:36.4 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:46.2 | Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam. |
| 0:49.7 | And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part 2 of our invention series on the history |
| 0:54.9 | of document duplication and facsimile technology. |
| 0:59.3 | If you haven't heard part 1 yet, what are you doing here? |
| 1:01.7 | You might want to go back and listen to that one first. |
| 1:03.8 | But I guess before we get started today, we could do a brief refresher on what we talked |
| 1:08.8 | about in the last episode. |
| 1:10.5 | So Rob, we discussed the emergence of document-based culture and business, politics, religion, |
| 1:17.3 | and society through the ancient world and some examples of ways that ancient people and |
| 1:22.9 | people and documents, scarce environments might think about documents and copying differently |
| 1:28.7 | than we would tend to think about those subjects today. |
| 1:32.8 | We talked about the long history of the scribe, a figure of vast importance who usually |
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