Paper is older than the printing press and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization in the shape of bills banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy as forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. Paper is older than the printing press and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization in the shape of bills banknotes and accounting. White magic the age of paper lothar muller trans from the german by jessica spengler polity wiley dist 25 352p isbn 978 0 7456 7253 3 buy this book muller an honorary professor . White magic the age of paper by lothar muller translated by jessica spengler polity 352pp gbp2000 isbn 9780745672533 published 28 november 2014 related papers the death of news the problem of paper in the weimar republic by heidi tworek mirabili visioni from movable books to movable texts english text by gianfranco crupi recent studies in the restoration and eighteenth