602. Books: The Original Hardware for Knowledge feat. Joel J. Miller

The Podcast Browser · Mar 2, 2026 · 47m

Podcast: unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)

Episode: 602. Books: The Original Hardware for Knowledge feat. Joel J. Miller

Pub date: 2025-12-01

Get Podcast Transcript →

powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

If ideas and knowledge are the software, then books have always been the longest-running hardware.

Author and former publishing executive Joel J. Miller’s latest book, The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future, delves into the history and evolution of books as a physical technology for idea transmission.

Joel…