My biggest question is whether we are fundamentally governable in the same way that Gutenberg brought on the Treaty of Westphalia.
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It's useful to compare this to the Printing Press, which severely damaged the Church's monopoloy on literacy and in so doing, helped enable over a century of religious violence in Europe.
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And then in the last three decades something has happened: the cost of speaking to a vast audience (on video, even!) has plummeted to almost nothing. Suddenly people could easily circumvent those truth-seeking institutions and talk to each other again, directly.
