In 1559, the Archbishop of Toledo was arrested for a radical idea: that ordinary people should read Scripture in their own language. Bartolom Carranza spent seventeen years imprisoned, not in chains but in bureaucratic limbo, waiting for a trial that moved slower than justice. His crime was suggesting that sacred truth belongs to everyone. But he was living in the age of cheap paper---an infrastructure that would make his dream inevitable, even as he died before seeing it. Today, we live in our own inflection point, where silicon and fiber optics have already decided we're building a global society. The question isn't whether we'll be connected, but what we'll do with that connection.

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