With the Enlightenment era, the game moved from royal courts to coffeehouses.

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about coffeehouses for the last five years because I've been kind of on this quest to investigate this question of where good ideas come from.

The following year, King Charles II ordered the suppression of coffeehouses, though he was probably motivated more by the desire to protect the market share of local beverages, such as alcoholic drinks and then-newly introduced tea, than by the infertility rumors.

Think, instead, of the coffeehouses with free, shared newspapers that became popular around then – places for complex communications.

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