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

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