What Will We Become?

We have solved many of the problems of being human.
But we have never finished the question of what it means to be one.

If you could live for 500 years, would you?

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Three Questions to Begin With

If life never ended, should we choose when it does?

If life could continue indefinitely, would choosing to end it become a right, a responsibility, or something else entirely?

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Can love survive forever?

If we could live for centuries, would love grow deeper—or would permanence slowly change what love means?

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What comes after perfection?

If humanity eliminated disease, scarcity, aging, and uncertainty, what would still give life meaning?

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Latest Essays

Films as starting points — each one a way into the questions above.

The Fountain (2006)

A man spends his wife’s final months searching for a cure — and the film asks whether refusing an ending is love, or a way of never being in the room.

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Her (2013)

Not a film about loving a machine, but about what happens to love when two beings stop sharing a clock.

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Gattaca (1997)

Perfection turns out not to be a summit but a new floor — and the competition simply continues on it, with one fewer excuse.

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