2021 | The Age of the Technocene

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Apr 23, 2021 · 1h 31m

Recorded April 21, 2021. The Age of the Technocene: Why we need the Arts and Humanities in the 4th Industrial Revolution The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2021 will be delivered by Professor Andrew Thompson CBE (Professor of Global and Imperial History, Nuffield College, Oxford and co-chair of the Global and Imperial History Centre at the University of Oxford). With the increase in planet-warming greenhouse gases, rising sea levels, and a growing frequency of extreme weather events, the age of the anthropocene has become a familiar refrain. We live at a time…