1994
Well ...folks, here we are: who said that history started when a written record was left in memory of a fact? Look here what a piece of history we are ..., ...uh, carving in the stone of our age - yes, it's the Stone Age, you know? - for you! You think you have invented things, don't you? Look here (right) how we extract and process oil, for instance. Hand-pumped from the wells till a very functional refinery, distilled and combined in various ways, it becomes a precious source of raw materials for a new, rising industry: plastics! For instance, take this factory (below) where skilled craftsmen produce a wonder of the technology: refrigerators, magic boxes where we can safely store our food for a long time. They hand-carve a cabinet in the white stone of our hills, and apply inside them a layer of insulating foam, obtained blending in equal doses Isocyanate and Polyol, two products derived from oil. When the foam is hard, refrigerator are sent to the village market, for immediate sale. Do you realize that we can't keep pace with the request?