Dr. Jill Lepore
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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So there's this whole, like, the personal computer is going to advance liberty, personal freedom, and therefore democracy.
It's not—it's like a kind of libertarian version, but it's about emancipation.
And, you know, it's an ad campaign.
It's like, at the end of the day, it's just an ad campaign.
And there are people who are like, well, exactly how does the personal computer—
It's great.
I would like one.
It's fun to have.
I also like a nice toaster, but my toaster isn't going to emancipate me.
What is it about?
So you begin to see...
new tech computing products as very carefully packaged with an ideal about personal liberation.
And then, so by the time you get to the 90s, in the opening of the internet to commercial traffic,
That you see the scaling of that promise, right?
Like, well, what's going to happen is now we're all going to have personal computers that are going to be linked to one another.
And so society is going to become emancipated and democratized, right?
We're all going to have a digital democracy.
Even though like it's a little bit like, you know, when political pundits like make election forecasts and they're wrong half the time, but no one ever remembers even what they forecast.
And it's like, how do you even have a job?
Like the people in the 80s that said the personal computer was going to liberate people.
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