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01 / prediction
“As the population doubles, they want the next generation to have the same standard of living, which means they need twice as much land, and so they’re expanding.”
02 / prediction
“I would say about a third of them are leaving for political reasons, and most of those leave very early in the 1780s.”
03 / prediction
“If we also bring in just how obsessed American leaders were at that time with racial difference, and at their sense of being beleaguered by the British Empire — in that there’s this very defensive expansionism that American leaders commit the country to — I would say that that expansionism, the bill that has to be paid for it comes due in the 1850s.”
04 / prediction
“Now, I’m trying to resist being the old curmudgeon who says the way we did things in my day are the way things always should be. But I would say is, it does seem that AI and the various other technological revolutionary measures that we’re right on in the midst of right now, in terms of managing data and analyzing data, is going to render the individual human mind of less value in the overall process and is going to — it seems to me, is going to diminish the role, therefore, of individuality and diversity in analyzing data and telling stories about the past, which is what we do as historians.”