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But the larger intellectual revolution undergirding the Internet--the redefinition of the relationship between people and computers, which turned impersonal calculating machines into intimate tools for everyday thought--earns only a few mentions in passing.
Undergirding Lilla's hesitations about the spread of democracy into various corners of life are, of course, two Europeans--the two he credits with first descrying the worrisome "existential character of the American democratic faith," the Frenchman Alexis De Toqueville and the Englishwoman Frances Trollope.