My favourite line from the movie Interstellar is, “A machine doesn’t improvise well, because you can’t program a fear of death.” The reason why humans can innovate and push boundaries is that we know that our time is finite. Our greatest source of inspiration is the hope that maybe someday, we can create something that can cheat death.
We try to create art that lives in people’s memories, medicine that extends life, and technology that transcends the body. We’re even trying to find a home on another planet in case we live so long that we outlive Earth.
At the heart of almost every major human innovation is the desire to outlast ourselves. This is why I don’t subscribe to the idea that we need to live longer, or forever. The knowing that death will someday arrive at our doorstep is what drives us as human beings to create something that will transcend time.
There’s an irony in it. Our sickness is also our cure. It gets me thinking that maybe death isn’t a flaw. Maybe it’s a gift.
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