47: A New Philosophy of Progress and Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars, with Jason Crawford
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The Coffee Houses, You Know?
Coffee houses were places where all sorts of classes and every type of person cand and mingle together, right? They weren't separated into their proper social classes. And so the elits and the authorities were kind of very concerned about this. In fact, somebody proposed to king charles that in terms of like, what books are printed, we should make sure that only elites can read them. The ultimate result of the reformation and the religious wars disor, to go back to that spurred in part by the printing press.
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