A Year in Pictures of Working

Sarah and I went to the Christian Science Museum to see the Mapparium, which is sort of like walking into the center of a brightly painted giant glass globe. There is an audio visual presentation inside. The continents glow and recorded voices float through the air explaining how democracy is saving the world and how the globe itself hasn't been updated since the mid-1930s.

When the disembodied voice said, "The world you are looking at now, no longer exists" I got a creepy feeling like we were in 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' or 'The Time Machine' and we'd stumbled on some outdated but still working relic from a dead civilization. After we were done I half-expected to find a post-apocalyptic landscape outside, past the Hall of Ideas.

There are no pictures allowed in the Mapparium, by the way, so here is Sarah holding the brochure.

# posted by Arnie : 4:39 PM