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A Vision of the Present

Posted By Jon On July 30, 2010 @ 4:04 pm In Culture | No Comments

Radoslav Zilinsky’s 2007 enchanting painting “The World” depicts a distant future where enormous prosperity is accompanied by enormous disparity. Funny because his future looks a lot like the present, at least to many of us living in Africa, South America, or most of Asia.

via LongNowBlog [1]

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