About the time of last post the media are escalating in attacks of anyone to blame for the apparent economic crisis (except the leaders). As the crisis is described as worse and worse, people being sacked in large numbers, the pockets getting shallow, I just can not help thinking: "What happens if the impossible happens in the time of great despair?"
I see the private initiative of reaching space as such an event. Could it not give us a focus when being desperate? If They can fly into space, I can take care of my family without a job - to create an example. Perhaps we will begin to learn that we actually CAN take care of ourselves and each other to great extend, and don't really have to be dependant on many of the things we think we have to depend on.
I really look forward to this event, and I hope it will be a wake up call for the world.
In Paul Mollers TED talk on his development of the Skycar, he finished with a beautiful statement on how a visionary invention is received. I believe that his quote fits the conflict between different ways of using knowledge in this blog very nicely.
Michael Lund writes in the Danish newspaper Politikken today that new firms with idealistic concepts are sprouting from The Economic Crisis as never before in Denmark. While most traditional firms goes bankrupt, firms giving their surplus to charity, or aim to put employ socially challenged individuals, are reviving the support and attention of their customers, multiply in numbers over the last 6 months.
About the time of last post the media are escalating in attacks of anyone to blame for the apparent economic crisis (except the leaders). As the crisis is described as worse and worse, people being sacked in large numbers, the pockets getting shallow, I just can not help thinking: "What happens if the impossible happens in the time of great despair?"
