retroTECH’s Long Now Lecture Series is part of our charge to create the future by exploring and preserving our technological pasts. Each month we’ll dip into the archive at longnow.org and find a talk that connects with retroTECH’s research concern -- how our lives shape technology, and are shaped by it, over time – and follow that with an open discussion guided by a Georgia Tech librarian, archivist, or faculty member.

This month's video is “Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures” by historian Abby Smith Rumsey. Delivered in 2023, this talk offers a framework to discuss our current social and political tensions and how our increasing polarization could shape our future.

The conversation will be facilitated by the Reference Archivist, Alex Brinson.

retroTECH's Long Now Lecture Series is part of our charge to create the future by exploring and preserving our technological pasts.