Notes:
contemporaneous 同时代的
telegraph 电报机
spoiler 剧透
assume to be 假定...属实
printing press 印刷机
Catholic intellectual hegemony 霸权，统治权
the Protestant Reformation 宗教改革
More media always means more arguing.
square 使...一致（how do we square those two things?)
philosophical transaction 哲学学报，交易，事务
invisible college
claim 声称
synchronize 使...合拍，同步
So they invented the scientific journal as a way of synchronizing the argument across the community of natural scientists.
2013-10-29 (50min) Title: How the Internet will (one day) transform government; Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government.html?quote=1876; Clay Shirky: http://www.ted.com/speakers/clay_shirky.html;
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Notes: contemporaneous 同时代的 telegraph 电报机 spoiler 剧透 assume to be 假定...属实 printing press 印刷机 Catholic intellectual hegemony 霸权，统治权 the Protestant Reformation 宗教改革 More media always means more arguing. square 使...一致（how do we square those two things?) philosophical transaction 哲学学报，交易，事务 invisible college claim 声称 synchronize 使...合拍，同步 So they invented the scientific journal as a way of synchronizing the argument across the community of natural scientists.