The technological innovations apparent within the 19th century circulated around Gutenberg’s printing press and the penny press as well. The efficiency of the speed of how things were published made a difference in how newspapers got the word around in a timely manner. In the 16th century, trade by ships was still playing a large role in the distribution on products. Maps were often hand made and continuously copied by hand. Many years later when the printing press was created, this helped re create maps with more efficiency and speed. Showing how some advances may take a handful of years.
When it comes to other technological innovations like Marconi’s radio, which began by transmitting mores code. This then suggested give and take along the tech frontier because this led to news getting dispersed in a different way than it had ever been done before. The business model for the publication of newspapers was thrown into a whirlwind of certain laws becoming established years later, but they became more popular and
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This was where I found Starr’s reading to be a value because he said “The origins of that path lie in he country’s founding as a liberal republic and its response to the peculiar challenged of building a nation on a continental scale” (3). This shows how the U.S. had a drive to go out West and expand, leading to the constitutional choices we have made today. This all circles back to the pre-existing rules we have in place from trade long ago. Something that can also be taken away from the Starr reading would be the public sphere that is modeled. Europe is shown to be defacto, meaning that it would emerge over time. In comparison to the U.S. that was more dejure, meaning it took conscious choices into play. This showered that things didn’t have to be uniform, but successful. The more openly accessible the information is, the more ways it can be received or