Today’s Political Polarization May Harken Back to 1500s: Printing Press, Protestant Reformation
New technologies cause social upheaval
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.
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