I spent a six days together with a large group of experts from different fields participating in a very unique project. We were supposed to look deep into the future, the present and the past, searching for solutions.
We were living in a huge spaceship on an orbit around the sun. The walls that protect the inhabitants of this spaceship from the dangerous sun-radiation were not solid but made of a special composition of gases. Somebody was trying to crash “the walls” to our spaceship. Could we identify the criminal? Could we prevent the disaster?
Each of us was a specialist in a particular field but none of us could find the solution alone. So we were forced to put our brains together and co-operate to solve the problem.
We started on a foggy island Tuesday afternoon by looking for food and trying to identify each- other. We prepared the food together, had the dinner at a long table and washed up the dishes when finished. In the evening we continued talking to each-other trying to connect our brains in a kind of wireless network. Then, when we got exhausted, we went to sleep.
We waked up on Wednesday, had breakfast, sitting together at the same long table. After the breakfast we hurried up to continue the process of connecting our brains to each –other. The fog covering the island was still thick, could and wet.
We kept on talking and talking from morning until late trying to reach the particularly speed of conversation that make it possible to exchange the information without censorship. One of the participants expected us to be as efficient as supra-conductors. Somebody wanted to slow down the process. Another one come up with the idea to remote -control everybody and make all in the group relax…
At some point almost everybody was building its-own robotic. Women and men were sitting together creating very small robots that cried like children, when the light touched them. It was a strong experience particularly because I’ve never seen anybody kissing in that place.
I remember also one or two evenings during that week being taken to a special training place in the town. In that place mails and females were separated from each -other. We had to spend about an hour all men naked in the same a hot, wet, fogy and suffocating room. We supposed that the women were also gathered in a similar space some-were in the building.
An-other evening we visited a strange dark, crowded laboratory. There were rotating mirror-balls in the ceiling, pulsating lights reflecting in the mirrors, rhythmic sound, and a kind of fog. After studying the place carefully I observed that there was a connection between sound and light. Than I figured out that a man was controlling the sound and a woman the lights. The crowd in the room seemed being controlled by the sound and the light. The visitors were jumping, shaking and crying in a primitive way. The more I looked at them, in the flashing light, the more they looked like apes to me. Even people from my group looked like monkeys. I tried to connect my brain to theirs to share my impression about that place called discotheque. It was a difficult task because it was easy to communicate without censorship but the sound that make people relax and speak out loudly, make in the same time impossible to hear what the other persons said. It was absurd that the noise that make it possible to communicate without censorship also slowed down the process.
The mission ended on Sunday, somewhere the city. Exactly at the end of our mission we were able to se the starry sky for the first time since we entered the project. The sky was a little bit different from the picture I’ve got looking at the light reflected of the mirror-bolls in the discotheque. But I was pretty sure that light was important. Another important thing was the fog.

Dorinel Marc 2004