Skip to main content Colin McEnroe: After 24 hours of testimony on religious exemptions, we don't need any more opinions FacebookTwitterEmail Hundreds of parents, children and vaccine skeptics pack the Connecticut Legislative Office Building in Hartford on Feb. 24, 2020, hoping to persuade members of the General Assembly’s Public Health Committee to retain the state’s religious exemption for certain childhood vaccines.Susan Haigh / Associated Press In his 2008 book “Here Comes Everybody,” internet theorist Clay Shirkey outlines a fairly simple idea: if you make something easier to do, more people will do it and people will do more of it. The example I use is making a copy . For most of human history, your only option was a scribe. Then, in the 1400s, we saw the arrival of moveable type. This occasioned some anxiety in the scribe community, especially the Abbot of Sponheim, Johannes Trithemius who, in 1492, wrote “In Praise of Scribes” (“De Laude Scriptorum”) in which he argued that printing presses would make everything go to hell in a hand basket.