Bringing historical storytelling into the modern age: FHL

'We believe history matters. History defines the way we live and think. Historical knowledge gives us the power to improve our world today. That’s why we’re bringing historical storytelling into the modern age through new narrative formats. We change the future by bringing the past closer to the present.'
—Future History Lab

A mobile documentary asks:
What if Martin Luther King, Eartha Kitt and others were on Facebook in 1968?
In journalist Mikhail Zygar’s innovative series, you can watch the events of that momentous year come to vibrant life on your phone in weekly episodes.

Imagine your phone screen getting hijacked by someone else’s — and it’s the phone belonging to astronaut Neil Armstrong. All of a sudden, you start receiving urgent texts from president Lyndon B. Johnson urging you to reach the moon ahead of Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin.

Sound alarming? Exciting? Now you can experience this scenario for yourself, thanks to Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar and his Future History Lab. They’re bringing the drama, transformation and turbulence of a pivotal year in world history to our phones with their mobile documentary series 1968.Digital.

Citation:
Article by Karen Frances Eng via Ideas TED
The series tells stories of 1968 as if they happened on 21st-century social media and other apps. Share This Idea.

“If we take history as a pretext, we can think more clearly about possible future scenarios. If we see we still have similar problems as we did 50 years ago, we must learn from the successes and failures of our predecessors.” — Mikhail Zygar

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