When art and technology come together, it can lead to great initiatives like the one that the Benediktas Gylys foundation presents today with Portal. Launched in Lithuania, more precisely in the capital Vilnius, Portal consists of having portals connected between cities so that passers-by can communicate with each other.
The first two portals now make it possible to connect Vilnius with Lublin, a city of 340,000 inhabitants in Poland. The design of these portals seems inspired by the Stargate in Stargate, but obviously do not try to cross them: they simply display a giant screen to broadcast in real time life hundreds of miles away.
A futuristic concept that allows strangers to welcome and communicate in the middle of the street even if they are not from the same nation. If there is now just one connection between Vilnius and Lublin, two future portals connecting Vilnius to Reykjavik (Iceland's capital) and later Vilnius to London should be established.
