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“This picture reminds me of the Burgess Shale, the Cambrian Explosion 500 million years ago,” exclaimed Seth Shostak, Chief Astronomer at the SETI Institute for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Mountain View, when he unveiled the painting I’d brought with me for the Encounter with OUBEY. And he didn’t know that OUBEY had called this painting “Krypto”.

“The constant of the speed of light separates us humans from a physical experience of the universe. This constant puts us in a kind of quarantine whose frontiers we can only overcome with the help of imagination.” – OUBEY (1992)

Humankind is intoxicated with speed. Over the last three hundred years, as development cycles have become ever shorter, the development pace of our scientific discoveries and technical achievements has increased exponentially.

Once upon a time and not so very long ago, we used to sit down, take a sheet of paper, pick up a writing instrument and put words down on paper when we wanted to write a letter. Those of us born in the past twenty years though have grown up in the age of electronic media where the keyboard of the computer or smartphone replaces the pen and the monitor screen ousts paper. The annual National Handwriting Day which was recently celebrated on January 23 aims to remind us of the value and importance of such a form of human communication. But would its disappearance really be a loss?