From the electric car of Nicholas II to the Soviet predecessor of Skype: Tomorrow, the exhibition "The Impossible is Inevitable" will open in the Jewish Museum in Moscow. It is devoted to the history of inventions and culture of innovation, all of the exhibition items are prototypes of modern technologies.
Darya Okuneva reports on ideas that changed the world.
The attainment of the impossible is inevitable is the logic of scientific and technical progress and is the main idea of the exhibition, which opened today in the Jewish Museum of Tolerance. A bold experiment was undertaken here: the creation of an art project about science and technologies. The past, present, and future of invention is in the center of the exhibition, specifically for the exhibit, the storehouse of the Polytechnic Museum provided the bicycle "Kostotrias", one of the first computers, and the electric car of Empress Maria Feodorovna, mother of Nicholas II.
Curator, Katya Krilova: "In the early 20th century, there were even more electric vehicles than gasoline engine cars, and no one knew then, which trend would develop".
The scientific history items were surrounded by modern gadgets, next to "Kostotrias," there are smart glasses, which read the pulse and warn about sharp turns. Next to the Empress's electric car there is a vehicle of the future, more precisely, its eye. A device which sees everything on the road and works as an autopilot. What was considered a miracle in the past, has become the technology available to everyone today. This is a mug — it doesn't turn water into wine, but into apple juice.
"It has a pleasant smell, please, smell it".
This is an apple cup, it smells like an apple and when you drink from it, it tastes like apple juice." Artists were asked to dream about future directions of scientific thought: this basil garden soared up in the spiral shape of DNA, grown without soil and sunlight, it is a symbol of artificial fertility. This complex apparatus is a hope that scientists will learn to predict the future and print the forecast to everyone as easily as a supermarket receipt.
Curator, Maria Nasimova: "We realized that in two thousand years dreams haven’t changed, and there are only 10 of them: teleportation, immortality, omniscience, about leisure time and entertainment, and about the creation of life".
Dreams are coming true right before our eyes. The objects on this table demonstrate how artist Anna Mukhova sees immortality, while the items inside drawers show how engineers see it. Dozens of modern devices, which prolong people's lives already today. It appears the impossible really is inevitable.
Everyone can personally see the proof of this until May 27th.
Daria Okuneva, Vladimir Voinov. Vesti.
