entity could communicate to the masses. • Newspapers, Books, Television, Radio, etc. • This formed the narrative of "the public". • Very polarizing — unifying and destructive.
you have access to a universe of information and ideas. • Anyone can publish anything to any number of people, large or small. A level playing field. • The implications of this are huge.
efforts to support both Python 2 & Python 3. • Core Maintainers will continue working in a vacuum, furthering separateness & division. • New users will keep coming to Python 3 & Python 2 will slowly attrit into nothing.