16.11.20 'Imagining the past and remembering the future'
Time. Past, present, future 'Imagining the past and remembering the future.'
British historian, Lewis Namier said: “One would expect people to remember the past and to imagine the future. But in fact, when discoursing or writing about history, they imagine it in terms of their own experience, and when trying to gauge the future they cite supposed analogies from the past: till, by a double process of repetition, they imagine the past and remember the future.” (Namier, in Pearce, 2011)
Pearce, D (2011) Technological Singularities, Intelligence Explosions & The Future of Biological Sentience Available at: https://www.hedweb.com/intelligence-explosion/index.htmlwww.hedweb.com/intelligence-explosion/index.html (Accessed: 13 November 2020)
British historian, Lewis Namier said: “One would expect people to remember the past and to imagine the future. But in fact, when discoursing or writing about history, they imagine it in terms of their own experience, and when trying to gauge the future they cite supposed analogies from the past: till, by a double process of repetition, they imagine the past and remember the future.” (Namier, in Pearce, 2011)
Pearce, D (2011) Technological Singularities, Intelligence Explosions & The Future of Biological Sentience Available at: https://www.hedweb.com/intelligence-explosion/index.htmlwww.hedweb.com/intelligence-explosion/index.html (Accessed: 13 November 2020)