When I was a kid I remember watching Powers of Ten and thinking it was the coolest thing. Turns out it was produced by Eames duo Charles and Ray (directed by Ray) and released in 1977. As we know, today it's all about interactive usage, and I just discovered a website called The Size of the Universe (if you want to know: 93,000,000,000 light years, but we can only see 14,000,000,000 of it because that's how long the universe has been around for) that, on a similar model as Powers of Ten, interactively enables the user to realize the same two things Powers of Ten makes obvious:
a) we're confused (what's out there?)
b) we're fascinated at our own scale (what are we?)
So did thirty odd years and multiplying our outer space vision by 140 light years really alter something? Maybe not. But it has come up with some really interesting questions.
