News Summary

• When Sony launched its cheap portable radio more than sixty years ago, it came with a headphone.
• This opened the door to Chuck Berry and then the Beatles.
• The launch of the Gutenberg press changed the politics of Europe for a century.
• The smartphone has transformed our discourse and created division in the same way.
• We’re now facing the biggest shuffling of media in our history.
• The messages will inevitably change as a result.