{"id":24864,"date":"2026-09-14T04:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/democracy-v-the-machine-the-birth-of-the-digital-age-and-the-warnings-that-were-ignored-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T04:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:37:55","slug":"democracy-v-the-machine-the-birth-of-the-digital-age-and-the-warnings-that-were-ignored-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/democracy-v-the-machine-the-birth-of-the-digital-age-and-the-warnings-that-were-ignored-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia \u2013 but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen?<\/p>\n<p>By Jill Lepore. Read by Laurel Lefkow<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/aug\/18\/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-warnings-computer-history-technology\">Read the text version here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Support the Guardian today: <a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/longreadpod\">theguardian.com\/longreadpod<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Adapted from The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore, published by Allen Lane on 25 August<\/em>. To support the Guardian, order your copy at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardianbookshop.com\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-artificial-state-9780241836552\/?utm_source=editoriallink&amp;amp;utm_medium=merch&amp;amp;utm_campaign=article\">guardianbookshop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2026\/sep\/14\/democracy-v-machine-birth-digital-age-warnings-ignored-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/649a756435dbd3c93e403544046ef977e9ac9ca4\/714_0_3672_2939\/master\/3672.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fd0a958ee3992e9af8b68c4b482197f4\" title=\"Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored \u2013 podcast\" \/>Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia \u2013 but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen?<br \/>\nBy Jill Lepore. Read by Laurel Lefkow<br \/>\nRead the text version here<br \/>\nSupport the Guardian today: theguardian.com\/longreadpod<br \/>\nAdapted from The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore, published by Allen Lane on 25 August. To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia \u2013 but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen? By Jill Lepore. Read by Laurel Lefkow Read the text version here Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com\/longreadpod Adapted from The Rise and Fall of the Artificial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/democracy-v-the-machine-the-birth-of-the-digital-age-and-the-warnings-that-were-ignored-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored \u2013 podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}