Science fiction writer Monica Byrne imagines rich worlds populated with characters who defy our racial, social and gender stereotypes. In this performance, Byrne appears as a hologram named Pilar, transmitting a story of love and loss back to us from a near future when humans have colonized the universe. "It's always funny what you think the future is going to be like versus what it turns out to be," she says.

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

Eternal life's pursuit leads to innovation in a coil dimension, revealing the cost of immortality is the loss of human touch.

Living to 432 years is now average; our quest to extend life sees no bounds of satisfaction, only growing desires to evade death.

Constraints in the universe, like mass having properties, create our reality and art; without them, we'd miss the beauty of connection.

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TED Stage Talk