Hey everyone, Lhasal Montgomery here, I'm back from my London jaunt, and by the time you hear this,

the interview with my friends at the London Science Museum, should have already been posted.

I came and I saw the clockwork treasures from China's forbidden city exhibition and

want to encourage everyone who lives in or visits London to go copagander.

The curators and museologists at the LSM did a bang up job with the whole exhibit and each one of these

masterpieces is shown in its own display case and you could walk around each one and see the

exquisiteness of these clocks from every angle. I've had this topic of

clocks and timekeeping devices in Chinese history on my list for years and I was thinking

the other day why not pull this one up from the bottom of the pile and feature it

now is a kind of you know complimentary episode to the interview I did with Tilly Blythe and

Abby McKinnon.

So here it is, and this won't be long, I promise.

You know, I spent a week in London with my son.

And aside from the activities surrounding the Clockwork Treasures opening at the LSM,

I pretty much spent most of my days taking in the main museums. And in the space of four or five days at the

British Museum not once but twice, the VNA and all the galleries, I repeatedly came face to face with the genius and the follies of humankind.

And in viewing the objects from the millennia before the common era to our time in the 21st century.

I was repeatedly reminded about how far we've come

and how this mass and velocity of human knowledge

and artistic design has never stopped accelerating and how all these

accumulated innovations going back to all those ancient artifacts we saw have led to everything we have in our very own day. I remember a time

when we'd say you know what's the world going to be like in a hundred years now I

...