10.6084/m9.figshare.729275.v4 Subhajit Ganguly Subhajit Ganguly Relation Between Medieval Renaissance and Today's Open Knowledge Dissemination figshare 2013 Medieval Renaissance Openscience print books figshare Intellectual Nazism Science Policy 2013-06-24 22:28:13 Journal contribution https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Relation_Between_Medieval_Renaissance_and_Today_s_Open_Knowledge_Dissemination/729275 <p> </p> <p>Time has shown us how zero control by a handful of individuals over the society and complete control of the community, as a whole, over itself brings about positive changes. Less the control by individuals or groups and more the control of the complete set of individuals, more is the positive change. The history of the printing press is a case in point. While history made a mockery of the control-freaks, it proved right the few individuals, who believed in the intellectual capacity of the masses. Intellectual Nazism should be a thing of the past and we should move away from such self-defeating practices. </p>