[compared with the time after the widespread use of the printing press]
Published on Dec 18, 2018
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Historian Niall Ferguson argues that today’s political polarization echoes the religious polarization of the Reformation. Both were brought about by technological disruption: The printing press, in the case of the Reformation; and the personal computer and internet, in the case of today.
From Niall Ferguson's Long Now Seminar “Networks and Power”:http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/nov...
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From Niall Ferguson's Long Now Seminar “Networks and Power”:http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/nov...
Check out more Seminars on Long-Term Thinking curated and hosted by Stewart Brand: http://longnow.org/seminars
The Long Now Foundation's monthly Seminars were started in 2003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking; to help nudge civilization toward our goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.
> Like Long Now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longnow
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