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Schemel Forum Luncheon - History at the End of the World

Thursday, 14 April, 2016

SCHEMEL FORUM SPRING 2016 LUNCHEON SERIES

History at the End of the World

In modern times the goal of history has been to increase knowledge and power so that humans dominate the planet. Toward the end of the 19th century the closing of the world frontier was taken as evidence that this goal would soon be achieved. Some exceptionally insightful writers of the time, Jules Verne, William Morris and Robert Louis Stevenson, believed this historical condition would bring a rolling apocalypse of loss along with what is usually called progress. Were they right?

Rosalind Williams, Ph.D., Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science of Technology, MIT

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