This is the first episode of a series of conversations about technology, work and communities.

Will technology encourage more local collaboration or will virtual communities take over? there are no easy answers, but the possibilities are intriguing for sure.

In this 20 minute episode Richard Hunt talks about the printed book as the first form of mass media and the stepping stone for proliferation of information. He compares social and economic models from the past with the new forms of collaboration and conversation made possible by digital technology.

Richard is a typographer and design educator based in Toronto. He can be reached at www.atype.ca

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