![]() ![]() The history of humankind is made up of an accumulating wealth of events, discoveries, and triumphs which provide a secure footing for subsequent generations. In families there are ancestors, with respect to history or career there are generally predecessors, researchers and scholars rely on the findings of pioneers, while thought and imagination are sparked by the achievements of founders, inventors, ground breakers, and modernisers. In countless spheres of life we follow those who have gone before us: our forerunners. Rather than existing in isolation, we are all bound together in an interwoven network of biological, social, professional, ideological and genetic relationships. What connects every person on earth is the fact that we all have a history. The saying is as contemporary now as it was centuries ago, because nothing comes from itself, there was always a Before. John of Salisbury: Metalogicon 3, 4, 46–50 He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.” “Bernard of Chartres used to compare us to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. Matthew Buckingham, Cao Dan, Cao Fei, Ragnar Kjartansson, Agnieszka Kurant, Zac Langdon-Pole, Goshka Macuga, Kris Martin, Deimantas Narkevičius, Egill Sæbjörnsson ![]()
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