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Table of Contents for Paradigms Lost: The Life and Deaths of the Printed Word

• 1. Peter Printing Pants in Linotype Hell, 1993
  

Part I. The Birth of Type: From Hand to Lever

• 2. Primordial Scratches
  

• 3. The Machine in the Manger
  

• 4. A Certain Scrambling
  

• 5. A Happy Man, Concerned
  

• 6. The Terrible Contagion
  

• 7. Faster Than Asparagus
  

Part II. The Type Age: From Lever to Machine

• 8. Cat Troubles
  

• 9. Trickle, Stream, Torrent, Wave...
  

• 10. Extreme Cheapness
  

• 11. The Dam's Last Brick
  

• 12. "The Hasty Approach of Evil"
  

• 13. Complacency's Triumph
  

• 14. The World without Kinship
  

Part III. The End of Type: From Machine to Math

• 15. Full Pantry, No Can Opener
  

• 16. War after the War
  

• 17. Dreams of Girl Typists
  

• 18. Buck Rogers Stuff
  

• 19. Like a Burlesque Blonde
  

• 20. Speedups and Slowdowns
  

• 21. Union's End
  

• 22. Aristocrats in Dotage
  

Part IV. Life after Type

• 23. Words Out of Dots, Rolled Out of Factories
  

• 24. ...And Offices And...
  

• 25. One Last Transaction Cost
  

• 26. The Descent into Free
  

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