Let's be contrarian. The Printing press centralized society. It was a prerequisite for the rise of the nation-state.
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I love this. What else causes net centralization? Also, what causes net decentralization (other than the opposite of these two factors)? Also paging
@kevinakwok who thinks a lot about these things.
One of my favorite examples of a centralizer is a long-distance weapon http://www.deathfromadistance.com/content/Bingham_Evanth_(2000)_9,_248-257.pdf …pic.twitter.com/vx4sTZKoBy
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The French Revolution caused the Internet because of long ranged weaponry.https://github.com/Emblem21-OpenSource/janus/blob/master/PHILOSOPHY.md …
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