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Silicon Valley’s Miracle Tech Was Supposed To Make The World A Better Place. What Happened?

IDEAS Posted: October 9, 2019 9:31 am

These magical machines were supposed to provide a solution to the economic and political problems of the late twentieth century, a way to transcend and break free of the confining aspects of postwar capitalism. This was a feint, a way of imagining a miracle fix to tensions and conflicts that had no easy resolution. Computers, Margaret O’Mara suggests, have long been metaphors as much as machines. – The New Republic

IDEAS Published: 09.27.19

Read the story in The New Republic Published: 09.27.19

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