US Policymaking and the promises of technology in the 1990’s

Mondy, February 27, 2023 4:00 PM (PST)

4041 HSSB

Presented by UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

Virginia Tech Professor Lee Vinsel built on recent work on the history of the Clinton White House and political economy, including Margaret O’Mara’s The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. Vinsel focused on technology, both the actual material change taking place in the 1990s and the fantasies surrounding the concept “technology,” which greatly outpaced reality.