Living in a world of distorting lenses (guest blog)

By Chrysostomos Agapitos (Polis Summer School student, 2010) Some years ago, I came up with this naïve idea for a short story. The plot revolved around a group of people being locked up in a room whose walls consist of millions of distorting lenses. I never actually wrote that story down. But, thinking it over through the years, I kept asking the same question over and over again: Could our world be similar to this?