What are the boundaries in our lives? Well, clearly nature sets us the most drastic of all: our own finiteness. Every organism on this planet, be it plants, animals or bacteria is facing death. Even single cells are facing biological aging (senescence) … in their case the so called Hayflick […]
At TEDxVienna 2013 UNLIMITED we confronted ourselves with all kinds of limits we have broken, are breaking and will break. Overcoming limits given to ourselves is a deeply rooted human characteristic throughout history; may it be our use of tools to compensate the abilities which we don’t naturally have or […]
Last Saturday in the Volkstheater Wien, leading thinkers and doers from all around the world provided the opening spark to local enthusiasts for discussion, connection and action on what they’ve then later determined to be the limits of humanity, society, science and invention. Outstanding speakers, the best audience in the […]
We are surrounded by limits. They shape things and concepts around us. As living beings, we are constrained to time and space, our possibilities are limited by the laws of nature. Our knowledge is restricted by the capacities of our senses. And we permanently feel the borders between the real […]