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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | TechCrunch

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

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