> we generally agree that the printing press was very good for society But are we right about that? To answer questions like that we have to make up counterfac

> we generally agree that the printing press was very good for society But are we right about that? To answer questions like that we have to make up counterfactuals, which are hard and hand wavey. Maybe we would never get the Reformation, and so the Catholic Church would still be burning heretics (a different spin on the modern day burning man), but as the article points out, maybe we also wouldn't have the haulocast... I personally agree with historians like Yuval Noah harrari that it's been all downhill since agriculture