Tyler Cowen recently interviewed a historian (Alan Taylor), and they approached this subject near the end of the episode—how much the job of a historian still i

Tyler Cowen recently interviewed a historian (Alan Taylor), and they approached this subject near the end of the episode—how much the job of a historian still involves browsing undigitized material sitting on a shelf in a cold room somewhere. Around 3215 seconds* in: > And then there's also a kind of notion that everything is there online when in point of fact lots of information about the past still only exists in archives <https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/alan-taylor/ https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/alan-taylor/> * of the audio version, that is; at that timestamp in the YouTube video, they're discussing the question "How will large language models change historical research"—interviewee's response: he doesn't know