Dr. Jill Lepore
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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Well, it didn't.
Right.
But then in the 90s, it's like, no, but the Internet is going to democratize societies.
Well, well, they didn't.
That was just an ad campaign.
And not that there aren't like plenty of people that sincerely believe that or there certainly is.
tremendous democratizing potential for the internet right like there was a lot of promise there but it's it's not realized for all kinds of reasons and then and so it's like already two strikes but then you get to like 2004 and the social all the social media emerging social media is like oh facebook like we're gonna democratize this we're gonna connect everybody we're gonna have a fully you know everyone will be able to be close to one another and then that also doesn't happen and then
What we need is democratic AI.
And that doesn't mean we have a say in democracy.
We as like a polity have a say.
It just means that like democratic countries should lift all restrictions and regulations so that democracies can have AI before authority.
It's just it's a it's an old story.
It's not purely an ad campaign.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, and I think that's fair.
I think we tend to forget that, for instance, up until fairly recent history, maybe the 1980s, very few newspaper reporters in the United States had college degrees.
They were people, you know, mostly men, but there are a lot of women beat reporters and women editorial writers who started out like delivering newspapers, you know, working at the press, the printing, working the printing presses at newspapers, you
uh climbed their way up i mean you know there's a reason jimmy olsen is in the newsroom with clark kent in 19 in the 1930s comic books like these are just they're like street kids and they know the streets and they start reporting i don't think they're that different from you know coming up with a 12 dollar blog post payment right and
That what happens in every industry, unsurprisingly, right?
Like there's a new medium emerges, the daily paper or the twice daily paper, right?
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