Week 1: Daily: January 26th

Don't our traditional forms of information communication, notably "the book" and especially "the textbook" contribute to our belief in linear history?


Yes, our old ways of learning and communicating do actually contribute to our belief in linear history. In the traditional way of learning, we used actual books, paper, and textbooks. Now adays, we are capable to use the internet to find anything we want, anywhere in time. Using linear history, we just see the history of one point of time to another point in time. This lets people see what happened in a certain era of the past and become aware of what it was like to live in that time. An example of linear history is like a timeline. You can only see the period of time shown on that timeline, but you get all of the information from this very line. At times, this method of researching a topic can be very quick. With linear history, you can look at it from the past into the future or present day. It's easy to see improvements in someone's lifetime or a country's history in this way. At others, it is easily found in more detail in other ways.Using linear history though, you can easily pinpoint information about that time period. I believe that our traditional forms of information communication, such as the book and the textbook contribute a great amount to our belief in linear history.