Rounding up
Ours is a world of rectangles and squares and rhombuses and other quadrilaterals. Of boxes and boxes and more boxes. We live in small or large boxes, sit at small rectangles to study, look at boxes all day, walk out and drive around in other small boxes. We are a race of boxes. So much so that it almost seems like we want to discredit and disown our most original invention ever – the wheel. The circular wheel.
A wheel, circular in shape, came along and changed our very lives. We stopped being uncivilised animals and began to put down roots and become the people we are because of that one big invention. Since then, the one invention that really, drastically changed our lives was the air-plane. Not rectangular or boxed, but torpedo shaped. The next best is of course the light-bulb. Which again was more circular. Is it just a coincidence? Or is there a hint in all of these? Do we need to look at non box shapes for inventions that will change our lives?
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November 19th, 2004 at 3:22 am
The Internet is shapeless – how postmodern.
November 21st, 2004 at 7:01 am
I am looking at your blog through this bloody box shaped piece of ancient junk…and I bet its invention has changed more lives drastically than any wheel or torpedo…for the worse ofcourse..
November 21st, 2004 at 12:14 pm
All shapes are but ideas imaginating in our mind.
It is how you visualise then.
If you can, a box can be square, circular, and another amoebic shape that you want it to be.
Really, you do need to think out of the box