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Buck to the future + Why historians would make bad policy advisers

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Buck to the future
https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-high-tech...k-in-vogue

BLURB: He’s a forgotten hippie idol, a sage of 1960s counterculture. What can we learn from Bucky Fuller’s faith in technology?



Why historians would make bad policy advisers
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-historians-wou...y-advisers

EXCERPT: [...] The past is not a neutral body of data, objectively coded so that events can be matched to one another for analytical purposes. Rather, it is always the product of a process of interpretation and representation [...] Though professional historians can draw on a wider range of potential examples, with a great deal more detail and complexity, much then has to be stripped away in order to make the analogy persuasive, and more persuasive than other analogies....
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