John Steele Gordon
Business and technology historian and author known for books like The Thread Across the Ocean and An Empire of Wealth, specializing in the economic and technological history of the United States.
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May 1, 2026 • 39min
God Looks After Fools, Drunks and the United States: John Steele Gordon on How Information Technology United America
John Steele Gordon, a business and technology historian and author, explores how communications tech held the United States together. He traces telegraph, cable, radio, TV and the internet as forces that knitted a vast nation. He discusses transport, markets, money behind big projects, and whether digital networks now unite or fragment America.
