Dr. Jill Lepore
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Like, I just don't think like we're in a moment of emancipation that's responding to that consolidation.
Some people are like, it's great.
I like these billionaires have all this power over our culture.
I don't, but like we're continuing to rotate in their direction.
I don't think it's kind of turning back.
So I guess that's how I would grant for you that there is, there's always something, um, thrilling, emancipatory, um, illuminating, increasingly inclusive about a new communications technology.
So I wouldn't deny that.
And so you're right to that degree.
It's not just an ad campaign.
Um,
But I do think we're in a kind of exceptional moment right now.
I remember...
Being quite struck reading an article from 1968 in a magazine that I think was called like Science and Technology, like a popular magazine, like, you know, the Wired of the 1960s by this guy, Ithiel de Solopoul, who was an MIT political scientist.
In 1968, he was asked with J.C.R.
Licklider, the inventor of the Internet, to speculate on what the computer revolution would mean by the year 2000.
And, uh, they're both really smart guys and they had really, really fascinating things to say.
Um, and if the oldest soul of people, this political scientist said, certainly by then there will be personal newspapers.
Like you will, you will log onto your computer in the morning and it will be networked because the computer was moving in 1968 from being a storage and data processing device to being a communications device, being both of those things.
And Poole said, you know, there really won't be able to be party politics if you have your own newspaper, because a party, a political party is the organization of political dissent of, you know, shared political priorities.
And, you know, I don't think we'll even have interest group politics, you know, like the
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