Why Digital Humanities Doesn’t Work
Digital Humanities doesn’t work. That is what I, an initial believer and advocate, now think.Let me explain why.Back some fifteen years ago, as the Internet became ever more a part…
Theo Von and Sam Altman on the Future of Historians
CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman was recently interviewed by comedian Theo Von. Early in the interview, Theo asks Altman about the future of History and historians.Here is what they said:(11:14…
The Rise of AI and Liberal Arts Degrees
Whenever I open Google on my phone, I get suggested news articles to read. For the longest time they were always about classic rock, and I couldn’t figure out why…
Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
Last year I had the honor of bringing to completion, together with my friend and colleague Gerard Sasges, an edited volume called Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century: Becoming Modern,…
The Tai and Nanzhao
A reader left a comment recently on a blog post that I wrote 14 years ago about what I thought was evidence of some Tai-language speaking people in the area…