AFD Article of Future Days

 

Luiz Pagano as collaborator of the most important Brazilian journal of scientific research, Superinteressante, developed unusual ways of proposing theories, the AFD

Luiz Pagano as illustrator of the most important Brazilian journal of scientific research, Superinteressante, developed unusual ways of proposing theories, the AFD.

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One of the great difficulties in expressing political-economic theories these days is to be understood without causing an emotional impact, especially for those who radically disagree with the argument or defend opposing arguments. In this sense, especially in this blog, I use an unusual resource, the AFD (Article de Dias Futuros), in which I write an imaginary magazine article, in future times, describing the anticipated reality, as if it were today, as seen here .

The idea came from an experience I had as an illustrator for the magazine Superinteressante (the most important scientific dissemination magazine of the 1980s~2010s).

In that magazine there was a section called 'Superfantastico', for which I illustrated, in which the question "what if" was answered. So questions like "what if there was teleportation?" or "what would happen if our western culture had Egyptian civilization and not Greco-Roman civilization as its base?" were answered by theorists in these areas.

In an alternate future of a point in the past, where we base our cultures and ways of life on the Egyptians rather than the Greeks, we might have Times Square with hieroglyphics instead of Roman numerals. Illustration of Luiz Pagano

At that time, I developed a great affinity with the proposal of answering the most diverse questions, in diverse subjects in a scientific way (and illustrating them)