Historian Niall Ferguson on the roots of today’s political polarization

Historian Niall Ferguson on the roots of today’s political polarization
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.

From Niall Ferguson’s Long Now Seminar “Networks and Power”:
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