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The Informed Life

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The History of Information Technology

Jeffrey Toobin: Disruptive technologies don't always leave behind positive outcomes. He says the printing press brought literacy, but also religious wars in Europe. We've been now a few decades into the internet revolution, he says. Do you feel with your perspective on where things might be going, is this a net good or is it more ambiguous?Toobin: I'm always like very reluctant to try to predict any future. It's over simplistic to say it's good or quote bad.

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