Chosen Brief

Keyword:

Viruses

Quotation: 

‘Well, I was born in 1930 and I remember going to the New York Worlds fair in 1939 and at that time the future was wonderful; six lane highways controlled by electrical machinery and electro-mechanical this and that. It was a grand future and we would all have four day work weeks or three day work weeks because machines would do most of our labour and things would just get better and better for everybody because we would all benefit from this power and control. Things have turned out so vastly different from that. Within six years of that the Dresden in Tokyo had been fire bombed and Russia and Nagasaki had been A-bombed and the Jews in Germany and Eastern Europe had been slaughtered and things went to hell and continued to go to hell. What more can I say.’

- Kenneth Knowlton, 2002