A General Theory Of Catastrophe — Niall Ferguson
The Joe Walker Podcast
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Science Fiction and History History
To get a field for time, you need to look back and forward. What thucydides writes is entirely intelligible in the same way that shakespeare's plays are. Science fiction allows us to think more concretely about technological discontinuities we can't real infer from history. Some kind of combination of history and science fictionwill stretch out your conception of time.
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