30. Understanding the Present to Understand the Future
SXSW is very much future focused. Hundreds of people talk about what they are going to do, or their companies are going to do, or what we should all do, to somehow make our lives, everybody's lives, better.
But sometimes a bit of balance is necessary. Sometimes its useful to look at what is happening now, and why, to see what's wrong, in order to make the next thing right. Generally you need to look for this outside of SXSW, and one - slightly random - place you could have found it is the African Book Festival in Berlin, also in March. Specifically the incendiary keynote session of Booker Prize Winning Author, Ben Okri.
The festival - and Okri - tackled migration, and its place in history.
'The story of the human race is the story of movement,' he said. 'If human beings did not migrate, we would go extinct. We are HOMO MIGRATIS and we never need apologise for migrating. Walls that piece the clouds will not halt the movement, and immigration will save Europe from itself.'
Have a think about that, if you want.
But sometimes a bit of balance is necessary. Sometimes its useful to look at what is happening now, and why, to see what's wrong, in order to make the next thing right. Generally you need to look for this outside of SXSW, and one - slightly random - place you could have found it is the African Book Festival in Berlin, also in March. Specifically the incendiary keynote session of Booker Prize Winning Author, Ben Okri.
'The story of the human race is the story of movement,' he said. 'If human beings did not migrate, we would go extinct. We are HOMO MIGRATIS and we never need apologise for migrating. Walls that piece the clouds will not halt the movement, and immigration will save Europe from itself.'
Have a think about that, if you want.
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