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Niall Ferguson: Writing History with Data
"World of DaaS"
The Impact of the Printing Press in Europe
It's worth looking at the impact of the printing press in Europe, and then seeing how certain things went viral in the 16th and 17th century. The thing that made it different was that after 1517 these ideas could go viral because they were very easy to reproduce with the printing press. And by that point there were enough printing presses scattered all over Europe and particularly in Northern Europe for the ideas to be pretty impossible to put back in the bottle.
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