Plastic Century

June 17th, 02010 by Alexander Rose - Twitter: @zander

Attendees at The Academy of Science debate whether or not to try the water from 02030

Long Now Research Fellow – Stuart Candy (along with cohorts) recently presented the Plastic Century futures project at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The project gives you the option of drinking water from decades ranging from 01910 (no plastic) to a hypothetical 02030 (mostly plastic). After sampling each I found them all to be fine except for 01960 which was a bit bitter for some reason…

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 17th, 02010 at 3:16 pm and is filed under Futures, Long Term Art.

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~jmcd/art/ John Q. McDonald

This is an important illustrative exhibit! We lament the growth of plastics in our world, and we have lamented it ever since the 1960s, when we learned to really see how we were wrapping ourselves in plastic. And, yet, we’ve continued to produce them, they continue to expand. What happened to our vision of changing the world and moving away from our plasticized existence? Have we failed so utterly?

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