The Unintended Reformation by Bradford Gregory

Any new technology is just kind of, there's always this initial anarchic period, but it ends up getting recuperated into structures of hierarchyan power pretty quickly. Writing is a great example of this, where luther is able to distribute his pamphlets because of the principal type, but it's also the same technology that's utilized for a mass education by the state. Weu can look at other technologies like the radio. You know, the bolsheviks during the russian civil war saw how important it was to seize it as a means of, you know, controlling the air waves. Ah, and i think with the internet right now, we're seeing a few different paths