In this article:
Exploring the footsteps of the human race
Just learned about this exciting endeavor from Don Belt last
night…
“ABOUT 60,000 YEARS AGO, OUR ANCESTORS TOOK THE FIRST STEPS
OUT OF THEIR PREHISTORIC AFRICAN “EDEN” TO BEGIN EXPLORING THE EARTH. IN EARLY
2013, REPORTER PAUL SALOPEK WILL FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS DURING AN EPIC
ON-FOOT JOURNEY THAT WILL TAKE SEVEN YEARS.”—
Sounds like an amazing story! Being a scientist/engineer, I
wonder whether bringing some ‘standards’ to the interviews Paul will be conducting
along his way would introduce some means of reasonable comparisons between
cultures, landscapes, geographical and sustainability factors? Furthermore, it
might be interesting to capture some of the meta data being generated by the social-media
‘cloud’ somehow graphically – meaning if one could dig-out the common
information/opinions/factors from this data, and display this graphically e.g.
vs. region/religion/… this might become interesting data.
Looking forward – Happy walking Paul!
