Why are we so bad at predicting the future? In this episode, we talk to Jennifer Edmond about our failure to understand the future, the pros and cons of technology, and why imagination is the key to a better tomorrow.
Jennifer Edmond is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin and a former Director of DARIAH-EU. She is an internationally recognised expert in the application of arts and humanities insight to academic and societal challenges arising at intersection of information and communication technologies and culture.
Clips from show:
This Is Marshall McLuhan - The Medium Is The Massage (1967)
David Bowie speaks to Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg
Future Shock (1972)
Arthur C. Clarke predicts the future on BBC Horizon (1964)
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI
Bill Gates Explains the Internet to David Letterman (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs-YpQj88ew
Charlene Hunter Gault interviews media theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman on PBS The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in (1995)
Mark Zuckerberg Instructs Facebook to Move Fast (2013)
The Wizard of Oz - Wizard Revealed (1939)
https://youtu.be/bYDEXbj2_0c?t=65
The History of the Future podcast is co-created and co-hosted by Mark Little and Ellie Payne and produced by Patrick Haughey of AudioBrand. The Schuler Democracy Forum is an initiative of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin. The Forum is generously supported by Dr Beate Schuler. For more information, see:https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/Schuler-Democracy-Forum.php