The World as It’s Always Been with Dr. Patrick Allitt

Everyone thinks they’re  right. We’re predicting the role of Artificial Intelligence, the future of work, the impact of big data - The questions is; 50 years from now will our grandchildren agree with us? Patrick Allitt is a professor of American History at Emory challenges the notion that history can predict the future.

About Our Guest:
Watch his TEDx talk here: https://youtu.be/Loeiei9LA-s
Patrick Allitt was born and raised in the English town of Derby.  He was an undergraduate at Oxford University (1974-77) and a graduate student in U.S. History at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1986).  He held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Princeton, and has been a professor of American history at Emory University in Atlanta since 1988.  He is the author of seven books, most recently A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism (Penguin).  He is also the presenter of eleven recorded lecture series with The Great Courses, most recently, The Great Tours: England, Scotland, and Wales (36 lectures).