Sublating Fact-Memorizing and Mistake-Avoidance in Connecting History with “Social Imagination” and Pragmaticism as a Creative Source of Concrete Possibilities.
I truly love this view of history as a creative source for possibility. It should be its own academic discipline. My spin on this vis-a-vis technology is is to divide history into pre and post "industrial scale", and then to ask: if x happened pre-scale in ways that today feel unimaginable, what technologies might make x possible at today's scale?
I truly love this view of history as a creative source for possibility. It should be its own academic discipline. My spin on this vis-a-vis technology is is to divide history into pre and post "industrial scale", and then to ask: if x happened pre-scale in ways that today feel unimaginable, what technologies might make x possible at today's scale?