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About a decade ago, as my home city of Austin’s big tech transformation really got underway, I started to wonder if I understood where the modern world had come from. I could articulate the core tenets of all the major religions, discuss the history of ideas from Plato to Derrida, and even describe, in detail, the many line-ups of prog rock giants. Yet, besides a basic overview of Newton, the Industrial Revolution and the periodic table acquired in school, I was rather vague on the history of science and technology. I was one half of C.P. Snow’s “two cultures” prophecy writ large, and in this I was not unusual: most people I knew with an arts education ...

Unherd     May 06, 2025