The phrase “histories of the future” is ambiguous, covering both ideas of the future in the past, and ideas of the past in the future. In the final discussion section of the course, we talk about the relation between the two and implications for historical practice.
Readings for Discussion
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Google circa 1960,” Fury.com
Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think,” The Atlantic Monthly (Jul 1945).
Nunberg, Geoffrey. “Farewell to the Information Age,” in G. Nunberg, ed. The Future of the Book. Berkeley: California, 1996.
Rosenberg, Daniel. “The Trouble with Timelines,” Cabinet 13 (Spring 2004).
Rosenzweig, Roy. “Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet,” American Historical Review 103, no. 5 (Dec 1998): 1530-52.
