Reflections 14th August

On My Mind

Perspective

It's been said that we don't know we've lived through a revolution until it's over. So what part do we play when that revolution is likely to take several lifetimes?

The thought arose as I read Jonathan Salk's "A New Reality". It is a republication of work, by his son, of a perspective of the scientist and thinker who gave us the polio vaccine. It is a short book, peppered with pictures and graphs, and just enough words to stop me in my tracks. Its presentation reminds me in many ways of a children's book, such is its ability to capture the imagination and its demand to be read at one sitting. And then read again.

Here is one graph in particular that grabbed my attention