{"id":45,"date":"2012-06-19T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T08:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2022-09-25T19:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T19:40:38","slug":"using-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"Using History"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">&#8220;The past that is already dead remains present in the future that has still to be born.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0Lewis Mumford<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Development takes time. Anyone who has been working for a while in the development business knows that change doesn&#8217;t happen overnight.\u00a0While a new scientific breakthrough or a technological innovation may appear within months, changing technological systems and our social codes and cultural rules of interaction normally takes many years, sometimes generations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is often said that we should learn from history and in my work, I have taken this advice literally. I often find myself doing history research as a way to understand the present, as well as using the present day&#8217;s development challenges to understand historical antecedents. After all, people are people, whether in present day Africa or in 19th century Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The past that is already dead remains present in the future that has still to be born.&#8221; \u00a0Lewis Mumford Development takes time. Anyone who has been working for a while in the development business knows that change doesn&#8217;t happen overnight.\u00a0While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/?page_id=45\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydropolisconsulting.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}