As politicians debate the fate of the nation, the rest of us struggle with deep political, economic and social divides. Three Public Insight Network reporters take to the virtual road to ask folks what they still expect from America and from each other.
(1.27.2012) It’s impossible to examine “the American now” without imagining its future. And with technology developing more quickly than our ability to predict it with any reliable precision, imagining that future is more of a guessing game with every passing moment. Here, via azspot, is a more eloquent and globally-minded way of putting it:
“Long before Beethoven sat before a piano… …someone with twice his musical talents was born into a world that lacked keyboards or orchestras. We’ll never hear his music because technology and knowledge had not yet uncovered those opportunities. Centuries later the fulfilled opportunity of musical technology gave Beethoven the opportunity to be great. How fortunate we are that oil paints had been invented by the time Van Gogh was ready, or that George Lucas could use film and computers. Somewhere on Earth today are young geniuses waiting for a technology that will perfectly match their gifts. If we are lucky, they’ll live long enough for our knowledge and technology to make the opportunity they need.”
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I’m not sure I completely agree. The...isn’t meant to suggest that Beethoven or Van Gogh...
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azspot). This quote is really interesting, because it blends a sort of futurist optimism with a total misunderstanding...
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