Quote Originally Posted by Grayve View Post
Linkpearls are basically radios, per Cid. He describes them exactly like real world two way radios (or cell phones) , only to give and say they use aether since the Warrior of Light is just staring blankly at him. Presumably, this means they are Garleanian in origin, being technology not magic. Whether the city states manufacture their own, or if the Ironworks makes them all and distributes them to the Grand Companies is unknown. They seem more advanced then the rest of Eorzean tech.

As for printing presses, all three city states have their own newspaper and reporters, which leads me to think they have presses. Presumably, they can't use scribes to hand write enough newspapers to the general populace.
At the same time, Fern mentioned that most of Eorzea's population is illiterate bar the adventurers and rich/well off people. The market for newspapers may not be as large as you think?

Actually, how the hell does any paper make money if the population can't read? You'd think they'd do some public schooling initiatives to make more money off readers.