The Present Past

Predictions of the Future from Every Era

Go to https://surfshark.com/present or use code PRESENT at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! This is a video about predicting the future. Sources: Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth, eds. The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe. New York: Routledge, 2010., • Burrow, J. A., and Ian P. Wei, eds. Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000.,. • Clegg, Brian. The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon. London: Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2003.. • Crombie, A. C. “Scientific Progress: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern.” In Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought. London: Hambledon Press, 1990.,. • Heiduk, Matthias, Klaus Herbers, and Hans-Christian Lehner, eds. Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook. 2 vols. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2021.,. • Lucas, Peter. “Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Fictional Origins of Organised Science.” Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (2018): 114–121.,. • Morgan, Dennis R. “The Dialectic of Utopian Images of the Future within the Idea of Progress.” Futures 66 (2015): 106–119.. • Potts, John. “Futurism, Futurology, Future Shock, Climate Change: Visions of the Future from 1909 to the Present.” PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 15, no. 1/2 (2018): 99–116.. Paleofuture.com Hi there, my name is Jochem Boodt. I make the show The Present Past, where I show how the present has been influenced by the past. History, but connected to the present and fun! Every episode I show how history has influenced and made a thing, an idea or event in our present time. I make different content. You can find me on: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepresentpast Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_presentpast/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/@ThePresent_Past Logo by: https://www.instagram.com/multicolor_junkie/ If you have an idea for an episode please fill in this form: https://www.dropbox.com/request/nMMMSpoNWUJHBIZ8hJRu