Name: 【TED】Monica Byrne: A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram (A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram | Monica Byrne)
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but I'm just going to look ahead and trust that you're there.

I've drawn a semicircle in the sand in front of me

so I don't walk past it and look like I'm floating in midair.

in the exact spot where your stage used to be.

that infinite possibility is a creator's worst enemy.

For example, this dress: I'd asked her to design something

that a priest might have worn in 23rd-century Cairo.

was an old duvet cover that another resident left behind.

"Proof of concept -- creation needs constraint."

I'm going to tell you about my greatest discovery.

For my whole life, my obsession has been eternal life,

You may be happy to know that your research will pay off.

The average human lifespan is now 432 years,

and my work has been to extend the human lifespan indefinitely.

we'll reach a point where we'll be content.

the longer we live, the longer we want to live,

I was reading about how you can take out a boat on Europa

and sail from island to island all over the planet,

and some of the islands have villages that you can stay and visit

And then there's this other island where there's just one songwriter

who sits and plays mandolin for the ocean.

And then there are others where there's no one

and so you go just for the pleasure of touching your foot to sand

You could spend 400 years doing just that.

Right now the Moon is rising in the Northeast.

I can see the cities on it with my naked eye.

Mariapolis on the South Pole, and Ramachandran on the Equator.

And New Tehran in the Sea of Tranquility.

The day we met, we were passing each other in Azadi Square,

and she, without saying hello or introducing herself or anything,

said, "Well, why do you think we didn't just pass through each other?"

And first of all, I thought, "Who the hell are you?"

I said, "We didn't pass through each other

and because the space between elementary particles

is filled with the binding energy that also has the properties of mass,

because she looked at me and said, "I thought you'd say that.

"Our universe is built so that particles have mass.

we'd have just passed right through each other at the speed of light

It was like we were both heroes climbing up into a mountain range together

and these new, perfect constellations of words

And we'd forget them as soon as we made them,

and throw them over our shoulder and go on to the next thing, on and up.

Or one time, Navid said that our talk was like we were always making bread,

and that we were always adding in a little more flour

If my obsession was eternal life, Navid's obsession was touch.

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【TED】Monica Byrne: A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram (A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram | Monica Byrne)

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