LABR 2P93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Convenience Store, Industrial Revolution, Effective Action
29 Mar 2016
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Our exploraion of working class history has tracked change and coninuity over ime and in space. Today we can organize the world into the economically developed countries and developing ones. Changing our perspecive in ime on this quesion also changes how we organize space. In 1500 western europe was the developing world, and places such as china, india, and mexico were the technologically and economically advanced places. Our knowledge of history can help us assess the present, and think intelligently about the future. History never repeats itself exactly, and it cannot be used to predict the future with precision. But history is a good guide to the future, and essenial for understanding the present. We need to talk about the robot apocalypse. There"s going to be a huge change, comparable to the industrial revoluion, says jerry kaplan, a. Silicon valley entrepreneur who teaches a class in ariicial intelligence at stanford.
