The above came together in a collaborative project as part of game.nypl.org, inspired by Cassini's Map Of The World. This has been attributed to Cassini only in name (generally thought to be almost certainly in error); it is in fact a single document built from a collaborative collection of maps, compiled in the 18th century - each piece represented the not-yet-completed thoughts of explorers of earth and space, who together put together a single piece of work that collectively helped each better understand a bigger picture of the world.
During the Find The Future game I was challened to create a document in similar fashion,starting with a framework that others could then add upon. The result above gives me some new directions to think about and expand upon; roughly speaking the x-axis is time, and the y-axis is something like "degree of similarity." That is to say, today's nostalgia looks very similar to tomorrow's cutting-edge art.
