Season 2 · Episode 181
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 181: Modeling the Future w/ Kevin Baker
Nostalgia Trap · David Parsons
March 3, 202059m 22sExplicit
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Show Notes
Kevin Baker is a historian studying the ways policymakers use predictive computer models to map the future. In this conversation, he tells us about navigating the shock of class consciousness in the academy, describes his work researching artificial intelligence at Berkeley, and offers the peculiar story of The Limits to Growth, a 1972 study based on SimCity-like computer programs that predicted the collapse of industrial civilization by the year 2050.