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Why History No Longer Guides Us. In 1992, Francis Fukuyama published his book, The End of History in which he argued that, with the cold war over and liberal democracy triumphant, the major historical narrative dialectic of history was over. He was, of course, somewhat mistaken. The world today looks much more like Samuel Huntington’s vision of The Clash of Civilizations than anything else. There doesn’t seem to be any less division and strife now than before. However, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that something has fundamentally changed, albeit the shift is technological rather than cultural (a fact which Fukuyama himself alluded to in a later book ). 1. For most of history, stasis was the rule. That’s changed in a resounding way. The difference lies in accelerating returns.

And it’s not just computers either. 2. If ordinary people can collaborate across time zones with no formal structure, knowledge has no place or time. 3. 4. Alas, it never came to be. While all this seems fantastic, we’ve seen it before. . - Greg. English Grammar Guide - Learn English Free. Tenses. It's all about time. Things can happen now, in the future or in the past. The tenses simply show the time of an action or state of being as shown by a verb. The verb ending is changed (conjugated) to show what time it is referring to. Time can be split into three periods The Present (what you are doing), The Past (what you did) and The Future (what you are going to do, or hope / plan to do ). The tenses we use to show what time we are talking about are split into the Simple, Continuous and Perfect tenses.

In English we use two tenses to talk about the present and six tenses to talk about the past. Simple Tenses The simple tenses are used to show permanent characteristics of people and events or what happens regularly, habitually or in a single completed action. Continuous Tenses The continuous tenses are used when talking about a particular point in time.

Perfect Tenses The perfect tenses are used when an action or situation in the present is linked to a moment in the past. The Future Tenses. English Grammar Guide - Learn English Free. Ultimate Spelling Test. Common Mistakes and Confusing Words in English - Learn English Mistakes.