This collection shows the significance of printing and technology during the Communications Revolution. This decade serves a great amount of importance today because it gives new technology users the opportunity to discover how printing made a big difference in today's social and artistic panorama. During this time period newspapers, maps, novels, coffeehouses, etc were all essential parts of the Communications Revolution that shaped our technology world today. 

This era not only sought to bring out new ways to communicate, but it also made ancient texts relevant to colonies who were living in more expansive areas which brought people to come up with more creative theories and ideas. According to a article titled, "Technologies of writing," Marshall McLuhan, a philosopher, "rightly notes that the shift from predominantly oral culture to print culture also affected the nature of human consciousness in that print represented an abstraction of though which gave precedence to linearity, sequential, and homo-geniality"("Technologies of Writing"). Throughout the collection, we will look at the different types of communications that have evolved and had a big impact on colonies during this era.