Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins puts together an entertaining presentation comparing the reaction of academia to technology with the reaction of the French nobility to longbowmen at Agincourt (1415). Having played far too much Civilization, I know how devastating the longbow can be against even heavily armoured opponents. And just so, though academia may appear to have the numbers and the weapons, they are facing a superior technology. (Not mentioned in the presentation: in 1453, the French would employ their own superior technology, the cannon, at the Battle of Castillon, effectively ending the Hundred Years' War.)
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