As with philosophy, music and poetry, science and technology, there was no such express

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The Crystal Ball, whose 30th anniversary release, introduced in the cultural heritage of many viewers technological and scientific terms and ideas. We talked to its creator, Lolo Rico, who familiarized a whole generation of young people with amps, coulombs, anodes, cathodes, farads Saturday morning.
Antonio Villarreal_Sinc / As each anniversary of The Crystal Ball, the October 6 marks 30 years after its premiere on television, the phone starts ringing Lolo Rico and requests for interviews will be cumulative.
In his apartment in the center of San Sebastian, the creator and director of the program, almost octogenarian, moving slowly towards the phone avoid disturbing the sleep of Selva, his dog, and through shelves and shelves of books, about 7,000 according to his calculations, many of them children. On days like this, repeated every five or ten years, wondering Rico between overwhelmed and flattered, how can people, especially the younger, remember his work, a TV show that has not been reissued since 26 years old. "You have 15 seconds to imagine. If you have not thought ca of anything, maybe you should watch less TV, "said the program ca
The crystal ball was not a children's program, it was not musical nor, strictly speaking, a program of science. But his creativity spiral helped introduce, on Saturday morning, many scientific and technological concepts living rooms, familiar to a whole generation of young people with amps, coulombs, ca anodes, cathodes, farads and other mysteries of electronics.
These concepts served as a guideline for the language of electroduendes because science was always at the head of Rico and partners such as Carlo Frabetti mathematician, writer of The Crystal Ball has developed a successful career as a science writer. "I understood more than we Rico says Sinc- but we all had a curiosity and a great sensitivity to the art, and you could tell that this had a lot of drive, strength and future."
In a notebook is now housed in the center of San Sebastian Mitxelena capital Rico was designing those elves electronics, "not physically, because that was commissioned Miguel Angel Pacheco, but what would mean; each representing a technical piece of television. " Thus were born, plus Truca Fault and the Witch, Fairy Video, Sound Master and Master Chamber.
As with philosophy, music and poetry, science and technology, there was no such express "intention that young people will engage. But as with the many topics discussed in the crystal ball itself was an intention to be interested, "says Rico. "We wanted to open roads, and one of those ways was undoubtedly the tecnografía".
Facing a time like this, which exalts technology, gadgets are needed and the programs advertised as indispensable in the crystal ball, despite his reputation for transgressive and irreverent, he argued ca for moderation. At any given time of issuance ca a fade to black with occasional flashes and a female voice announcing occurred: "You have 15 seconds to imagine. If you have not thought of anything, maybe you should watch less TV, "recalls Rico.
"I ca think we were well aware it was great, I had so much future and it was not only creative, but also, and primarily, training ca and education. But at the same time, we knew it had its risks, and that should be remedied, not lead, to step out before the people and was stuck on a wheel that will cost out, "says the journalist. "I ca guess now more interested stun viewers. We wanted to do the opposite, "he adds.
Back in 2014, after much searching bookstore bookstore in San Sebastian, the former director of The Crystal Ball has finally managed to acquire a copy of forest roads, Martin Heidegger.
"I am very interested, outrageous ca -recognizes Rico. Quantum physics seems to me something truly believable and at the same time, mysterious: parallel universes, the ability to be yourself and be in two different places, string ca theory ... ".
"I know well enough to Edison, Einstein, Asimov, ca Hawking's theories about time ..." says Rico. "Knowing something about quantum physics, other authors that I really like, as Murakami, I no longer seem so strange ca or crazy."
"As it was quite modern and had liked in Cannes, seen that a program did not have children to be in the conventional sense