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electronic age of simultaneity all these policies have had to be
reversed, beginning with the new drive for decentralism and
pluralism in big business itself. That is why it is so easy now to
understand the dynamic logic of printing as a centralizing and
homogenizing force. For all the effects of print technology now
stand in stark opposition to the electronic technology. In the
sixteenth century the whole of ancient and medieval culture
stood in equally conflicting relation to the new print
technology. In Germany, more pluralistic and tribally diverse
than the rest of Europe, “the unifying services of printing in the
formation of a literary language” were strikingly effective. And,
write Febvre and Martin (p. 483):
Luther made a language which in all domains approaches
modern German. The enormous diffusion of his works,
their literary quality, the quasi-sacred character which