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My last book was about the story behind the Shi'a-Sunni split, and for that, I'd worked closely with the earliest Islamic histories, so I knew the events to which the Koran constantly refers, its frame of reference.
And the second implication is that the world will inevitably, as a consequence, become increasingly unfamiliar to us, because it'll be shaped by cultures and experiences and histories that we are not really familiar with, or conversant with.
We want to go and spend time with the old people and hear their stories and record their oral histories.
Among these kids, I want to connect their families' histories to the bliss of a goal-scorer's run, family like that feeling after the ball beats the goalie, the closest thing going to freedom.
The entire time I was traveling around the Middle East and Rwanda and across the United States, hearing these unbelievable stories of people in communities who had left entire histories of hate behind, I was still looking for Vicky.
And for me, to take this object to Iran, to be allowed to take this object to Iran was to be allowed to be part of an extraordinary debate led at the highest levels about what Iran is, what different Irans there are and how the different histories of Iran might shape the world today.
So we are building histories here, but they're very short-term histories.
But this exercise of taking single pieces of information and building narrative structures, building histories out of them, I find tremendously interesting.
And I think this is tremendously, tremendously important, because these are our histories that are being stored on these devices.
And it's meant to kind of reflect how we engage with histories or stories on the Internet, in a less linear form.
We are leaving our birthdays, our places of residence, our interests and preferences, our relationships, our financial histories, and on and on it goes.
Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable.
We're so intertwined in the lives and culture of people in North America and Europe, that you might be surprised how critical we are to your histories and future.
They're our memory-keepers and our histories, the last thing we would grab and the first thing you'd go back to look for.
But also, technology has helped to write new pages of our history, or at least to update pages of our histories.
It may also be powered by cosmopolitanism, by histories, and journalism, and memoirs, and realistic fiction, and travel, and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as sub-human, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life, the sense that "there but for fortune go I." Whatever its causes, the decline of violence, I think, has profound implications.
And the stories that were captured of his life make up one of the crown jewels of histories, of human-lived experiences filled with ex-slaves.
It's essentially a way to make a national oral histories archive one conversation at a time.
But that was coupled together with this oral histories booth, really the simplest we've ever made, where you locate yourself on a map.
And so these oral histories, which we've actually been capturing already for years, are then mixed together with interviews that we're doing with people like Donald Rumsfeld, Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, and you mix together these different players and these different experiences, these different reflection points about 9/11.
And it is a journey which has only served to strengthen my faith, and my appreciation of local histories and cultures by showing me possibilities where I once only saw absolutes.
Some of these images are degraded images of black people, kind of histories of very challenging content, and where better than a neighborhood with young people who are constantly asking themselves about their identity to talk about some of the complexities of race and class?
And it occurred to me then that we do not get to choose the histories that we inherit.
My work spirals from the micro to the macro level, excavating hidden histories.
Things from all over the world have been rebuilt here, away from their histories, and away from the people that experience them differently.
Number two: We must embrace the lived experience and our histories, and we must make sure we never go back to a place where we cannot move forward.
We've learned over time that stars have individual histories; that is, they have birth, they have middle ages and some of them even have dramatic deaths.
We went down to the Federal Reserve and copied interest rate histories and stuff like that, because it didn't exist on computers.
The impact it would leave affected not only these slaves and their descendants, but the economies and histories of large parts of the world.
There are an infinite number of histories that we could've had.
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