what history can teach us, a talk with michael bess (revisit) [video]

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emma chamberlain

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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[video available on spotify] today we're going to be talking to michael bess. michael bess is chancellor's professor of history at vanderbilt university, where he has been teaching for the past 34 years. he's the author of five books, and a specialist in 20th and 21st century europe with a particular interest in the interactions between social and cultural processes and technological change. today i want to discuss with him how technology has impacted our quality of life over the past few centuries. i also want to discuss the ways that we might romanticize the past. and last but not least, i want to discuss how the internet impacts our perception of our current times, and how that's possibly very damaging. just sit back, relax, and enjoy my conversation with the incredible michael bess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's me, Emma.
0:03.0	And right now, I'm on a holiday break.
0:06.0	I'm taking a few weeks off to spend time with family,
0:09.0	rest my brain, and sleep as much as possible.
0:13.4	But in the meantime, I'm re-running
0:15.8	some of my favorite episodes from this year,
0:18.2	just in case you haven't heard them yet,
0:20.0	or just in case you want to hear them again.
0:22.2	So I hope you enjoy this episode rerun,
0:25.8	and I'll be back with new episodes
0:28.2	on January 11, 2024.
0:31.1	Happy holidays. I love you. I appreciate you and I'll talk to you soon. Okay, enjoy the episode.
0:38.0	Today we're going to be talking to Michael Bess. Let me just read off my clipboard. All of this man's incredible
0:47.4	accolades. Michael Bess is Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University where he's been teaching for the past
0:55.1	34 years. This man has been teaching for longer than I've been alive. He's the
1:01.1	author of five books. Michael Bess is a specialist in 20th and 21st century Europe
1:07.0	with a particular interest in the interactions between social and cultural processes and technological change.
1:15.0	So today I want to discuss with him
1:19.2	how technology has impacted our quality of life over the past few centuries.
1:27.6	I also want to discuss the way that we romanticize the past.
1:32.0	You know, a lot of us look at the 80s and say, I was, I should have been
1:37.8	born then, but instead I was born in the 2000s where there's just too many iPads everywhere.
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