Pantheon

We were not born with the ability to fly, cure disease, or communicate at long distances, but we were born in a society that endows us with these capacities. These capacities are the result of information that has been generated by humans and that humans have been able to embed in tangible and digital objects. This information is all around us: it's the way in which the atoms in an airplane are arranged or the way in which our cellphones whisper dance instructions to electromagnetic waves. Pantheon is a project celebrating the cultural information that endows our species with these fantastic capacities. To celebrate our global cultural heritage, we are compiling, analyzing, and visualizing datasets that can help us understand the process of global cultural development.