Professor Andy Miah Faces the Future Andy Miah

How does the concept of history change as a result of technological transformations? And how should we think about history, when we endlessly record our lived experience? This episode gets into the complexity of time, history, and the future, to consider how we might reorientate ourselves into a healthier way of thinking about the present. 

A fascination for journalism and a belief in its importance has been a constant presence throughout my career and this takes you back all the way to the beginning of journalism and how it entered my life in a big way. 

It may be said that the origin of human civilisation is to be found in the development of language, those complex systems which enable us to organize our ideas and each other, and which allow us to develop insights that lead us to alter the natural world in complex and sometimes catastrophic ways. But we live in times of mass language extinction. What will the future of our linguistic world look like?

How should we think about the pursuit of education and the function of assessing knowledge? 

This episode asks us to consider the value of exams and the merits of different ways of knowing.

As the world slowly transitions into a more sustainable environment, this episode asks whether it is enough to avoid global catastrophic disaster.

In times when the rise of robots and artificial intelligence seem to know no limits, today we're talking about whether any of us can expect to have any job at all in the future.