8.30.2006

Albert Einstein's Contribution to the 1939 World Fair's Time Capsule

In Marc Estrin's book, Insect Dreams (I mentioned this title before and recommend it... taking the metamorphosed cockroach from Kafka and giving him a new life through the greatest and worst of the first half of the 20th century), he reminds us of the time capsule contributions interred during the '39 World's Fair in New York.

One of these quotes is from Albert Einstein that seems at least as apt today as then:

"Present production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganized so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle...
Furthermore, people living in different countries kill each other at irregular time intervals...
for this reason, anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror."