They are not always available „on demand” (in the standard of World on Demand – WOD), but they are always revolving close to us. Perhaps it is for this reason that we „shooted” a next project at our Foundation. The future began to heavily impinge upon the present. The Future Games were supposed to calm the situation a bit and commence the construction of the Tenement of a Future Age in Łódź. Naturally, in the eastern row of the future Kobro Market in a New Center of Łódź, opposite the Tenement of a Promised Land, as part of the same 21K project.
As always, it was about the Baron of Łódź – Münchhausen. Not everyone has as much vigor as the baron who climbed to the Moon using a rope.
What about the others, who don’t possess such strength? And yet, one must move through the streets of Łódź.
One can freely travel between mundus sensibilis and mundus intelligibilis. In Greek (as usual), it sounds even better, as one can travel between two universes (κόσμος αἰσθητός and κόσμος νοητός).
One of the safest, most touching naiveties of an „engineering” vision of easy communication in the future can be seen in Grandville’s illustration from the 1844 book Un Autre Monde”.
When you listen to (or read about) the great technologies of the future, and everything seems understandable to you, remember Grandville’s sturdy bridge. Its cosmic span of arches heralds the Parisian Eiffel Tower, which will be built forty years later. And just think, in Łódź it is somewhat different, than somewhere else. Łódź, in its efforts to deal with the future, still remembers that it is a new growth, something that sprang up rapidly in the middle of the feudal estates of the Sieradz-Łęczyca Land. And it subordinated everything to itself. In the blink of an eye, in the lifetime of one generation, like the biblical vision of the Promised Land.
We might consider whether we should, to begin with, end the sermons, conversions, persuasions to action, and strive for even greater span. Who knows? Perhaps we’ll outrun London again…
