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Art, the low incomst countries and tattoos
At the bookcafe at work, there an exhibition with photos from Bangladesh. The photograph supports a movement that educates girls in Bangladesh. So far so good. What I reacted to is that they educated the girls in "small-scale crafts". To me it sounds like, and note that this is just my thoughts as a dilettante on the developing world, a romantic fantasy. I’m not saying all girls in rural Bangladesh should grow up to make cutting edge research on quantum physics or genomics or A.I. or whatever, but is “small-scale crafts” really the future?
It made me think about Freeman Dyson article Our Biotech Future that now ten years old.
The other thing from work I want to share is that I saw a photo of a peace monument from 1955 in Sweden. The thought of a peace monument made me think that if I ever get another tattoo it would be of the Non-Violence monument outside the United Nations Headquarters, New York (pic: Wikimedia).
About the Swedish monument. The thing is that the statute i question celebrate the peaceful splitting of the union between Sweden and Norway in 1905. That was 50 years after the dissolution, a hundred years after the dissolution we let american artist Jenny Holtzer make an exhibition about it. End of lecture.
It made me think about Freeman Dyson article Our Biotech Future that now ten years old.
In the article he argues that the future of rural areas are great. We can do some real extreme genetic engineering and produce for example trees with silicon in their leaf. In theory a tree like that should grow ten times faster than ordinary trees. By planting trees like that, and have them produce different material the rural areas of the world will become very, very productive. Say what you want, and I say he’s very likely to be naively technic optimistic, but that’s the opposite of small-scale crafts.
About the Swedish monument. The thing is that the statute i question celebrate the peaceful splitting of the union between Sweden and Norway in 1905. That was 50 years after the dissolution, a hundred years after the dissolution we let american artist Jenny Holtzer make an exhibition about it. End of lecture.
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