"World of DaaS"

Niall Ferguson: Writing History with Data

Oct 8, 2021

56:11

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Episode notes

Is There a Legitimacy in the Green Revolution?

03:13

What Advice Would You Wish You Could Have Given to Your Younger Self?

02:39

Cassandra's Are Not Available to Predict Most Disasters

05:08

Introduction

3min

Safe Graph and the Pandemic

3min

History and the Nature of Archiving

3min

The United States of Amnesia

5min

The Impact of the Printing Press in Europe

2min

How Things Go Viral in the Early Modern Period

3min

Is Paul Revere Really Important?

5min

A History of Network Social Networks

2min

The Illuminati and the Square in the Tower

2min

10.

We're Not Getting Together to Change the World

3min

11.

Is There a Legitimacy in the Green Revolution?

3min

12.

The End of the World

6min

13.

Cassandra's Can Do Good Things, Right?

2min

14.

Cassandra's Are Not Available to Predict Most Disasters

5min

15.

Playing With Ideas

5min

16.

Is Kabul a Pandemic?

2min

17.

What Advice Would You Wish You Could Have Given to Your Younger Self?

3min

Technology drives many transformations in how humans interact. Yet, very few people working in technology spend time studying the past. Niall Ferguson believes that we would better understand today's burning issues in technology if we thought about them with a historical framework.

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank within Stanford University. Niall is also an historian, columnist at Bloomberg, and author of 17 books.

Auren and Niall explore early examples of virality in the 16th and 17th century, data's role in writing and understanding history, and what you shouldn't do if you want to change the world. They also dive into Niall's latest book, Doom, and Niall's concern that society today is limiting the creation of brilliant ideas.

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