
You can start by thinking about what you know of the year 1817.) Imagine what people in the year 2217 will think and know about the year 2017. In a mind bending turn I’ve also started thinking about how people will think about the present time in the future. I’ve been reading heaps of books about future of technology and culture – how we collectivity approach thinking about the future (listed at end of article). The only way we know the future is through the past.

There is deep irony in this story, a tension between building the future and knowing the past, and the value our culture put on both. He became a welder because teaching history didn’t pay enough.

I have a friend, Isaiah, who wanted to be a history teacher, he got a degree in history.
