Monday January 02, 2006 Paul Roberts' Musings
Monday January 02, 2006 Thomas Parnell's Pitch Drop Experiment is a fascinating illustration of the unobservable attributes of everyday objects (admittedly pitch may no longer fit that description). It provides a thought provoking example of something that requires not the global form of co-operation that the Internet can bring, but instead a cross generational co-operation. It illustrates something that is not perceptible by individuals in a short space of time, but instead by investing in the future Parnell gives us a history that we can retrospectively interpret and learn from. As well as a fascinating experiment, it makes for a great example of the kind of debts that we owe to previous generations. ( Jan 02 2006, 03:06:40 PM GMT ) Permalink
