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The Autonomous Revolution
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The Autonomous Revolution

by William Davidow, Michael Malone
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 37m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Foreword

David M. Kennedy

TO STUDY THE HISTORY OF HUMAN LIFE and human societies is to study change. If there were no change, our understanding of any given moment in time would yield the key to understanding all moments in time. History as a method of inquiry would then resemble science, whose central quest is to elucidate the constants of the physical world that constitute the “laws” of nature. History, like science, would then have predictive value—although making predictions about humanity’s future in a world without change would be a decidedly no-sweat matter of “same ol’, same ol’,” hardly requiring powerful analytical chops.

But history knows no such laws, and historians no such sinecure. The objects of historical analysis, by their very ...

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ISBN: 9781523087631