For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve. More than one billion people worldwide have no access to clean water. The Rule of Law is gradually disintegrating all over the world. More than three million kids under the age of five years die every year due to environmental factors like pollution. Only in 2010 about ten million tons of plastic were thrown to the seas; virtually all fish, many of the vegetables we eat and literally all the beaches in the world have microplastics, which we ingest and that become part of our bodies. Only the Great Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean was almost equivalent to the size of Mexico. Look at the map and see what that means. Everything indicates that we are in a suicidal race to the 6th Extinction. People are absorbed in robotic and cyber systems. Hyper consumption and continuous entertainment. Politicians thinking the world as if they were in the 19th century. Why? All this constitutes the subject of this book. The Grasshopper Man and the Metamorphosis of the Electronic Society.
About the Author: Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta has been considered an important musician, architect, writer, photographer and intermedia artist in the beginning of the third millennium - according to statements written by personalities like John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Merce Cunningham, René Berger, Daniel Charles, Dove Bradshaw, Phill Niblock or William Anastasi among others. With several international prizes, more than seventy published books, many electronic books and forty audio compact discs, his works are included in some of the most important art collections and world-wide recognized institutions like the Whitney Museum of New York, the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum, the Biennale of Venice, the Computer Art Museum of Seattle, the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Durini Contemporary Art Collection, the Bibliotèque Nationale of Paris and the MART - Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento among others. His works are also included in the Universalis Encyclopedia (Britannica) since 1991, in the Sloninsky Baker's Dictionary (Berkeley), the Charles Hall's Chronology of the Western Classical Music, as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds. Legendary musicians like John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, John Tilbury, Christian Wolff, Maurizio Barbetti, Audrey Riley and the Manhattan Quartet among others have performed his compositions. He collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham, from 1985 until his disappearance in 1992. He remained composer for Merce Cunningham along more than twenty-five years, Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept of virtual architecture and designed the first virtual planet in history. He is member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris, of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, of the Space Architecture Technical Committee of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics, of the SACD Paris, of the Council of Architects in Brazil and of the Order of Architects in Portugal among other institutions. He is co-founder and director of the HOLOTOPIA Academy, in the Amalfi Coast, Italy (www.asa-art.com/holotopiaacademy.html). Emanuel Pimenta lives in Locarno, Switzerland - but he is also based in New York and Lisbon. His website is www.emanuelpimenta.net