The Future of History

This is a text version of my audio podcast, ‘Professor Andy Miah Faces the Future’. You. can access the audio version below.

How does the concept of history change as a result of technological transformations? And how should we think about history, when we endlessly record our lived experience? This episode gets into the complexity of time, history, and the future, to consider how we might reorientate ourselves into a healthier way of thinking about the present.

One of my earliest influences was the political theorist Francis Fukuyama, whose phenomenal essay on the ‘end of history’ nudged me into thinking about my own sense of history, the passing of time and how I situate myself in some broader historical trajectory.

Such thoughts are always profound and mind blowing exercises, which lead me to come to terms with my own existential peculiarity and the bizarre and unlikely chance of my own existence and the remarkable fact that there is anything at all out there in the world for us to perceive, appreciate, and…