Book review: Zielinski, S. (2006). Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means. Trad. del alemán: Gloria Custance. Cambridge- Londres: MIT Press. 375 páginas. ISBN: 0-262-24049.

There was a "deep time", in which the media had not been invented, let alone convergence. After electricity came and the human being gave to use it to communicate with their peers. At that time unexplored and gray belong the characters of this book, originally published in German and, at a good time, published in English by MIT.

From paleontology the author took a concept that helped him to orient himself through the prehistory of the media: civilization has not followed a divine plan; Under thick layers of granite there are unknown treasures that are worth discovering. The history of the media is not, then, the product of the advance from some primitive devices to more complex ones. The media are, rather, spaces, of attempts to connect what is separate.