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TitlePost COVID-19 Period's Civilizational Turn and Computational History2021-06-01 15:36
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Serial Number: http://www.riss.kr/link?id=A107238903


Title: Post COVID-19 Period's Civilizational Turn and Computational History

Author: Kim Gi-Bong

Journal: The Korean Journal of History of Historiography

Vol: (42)

Pages: 239-262

Date: 2020.

Register Information: KCI

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The usefulness of history is based on the fact that it provides the wisdom to understand current problems and find solutions in light of past examples. However, can history exert such an effect even in the post COVID-19 era of the “New normal”, when one has to pursue a new path away from the existing trajectory? In order to go on a new path of civilization that humanity has never been on, what is needed is a navigation system that can cope with the “New normal”, not a map of the past. It is thanks to the development of artificial intelligence that humans have been able to rely on an autonomous navigator to drive a car.
Computational history is a new model that seeks to use artificial intelligence as a tool in history. Through simulating the imagined historical process, computational history contributes not only to re-recognition of the ‘past future’ but also to making the future beyond predicting it. If the sustainability of the post COVID-19 civilization depends on whether or not the crisis can be turned into opportunity, history should expand its research scope into simulations that can prepare for the “New normal” beyond representing past facts.

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