Tuesday, 22 January 2008

Davos or Sundance?

Which "festival" will have the greater impact on humanity over the next 365?
Davos is the annual home to the World Economic Forum where everyone who's anyone ascends to the top of the mount in Switzerland to discuss matters like: east-west relations, poverty, collaboration, water, energy, climate change and the muck of sub-prime.

The Sundance Festival is the annual independent film festival and the "child" of Robert Redford when everyone who wants to be someone in film ascends to the top of the mount in Park City, Utah.

Both events are precious opportunities to connect face-to-face. Both are seeking to change the world and to change how we see the world. One is a reflection of the world the way it truly is while the other is the attempt to make it the world some would like it to be.

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