TEDx talk on the Future by Margarita Gutman

Margarita Gutman, director of the OLA, will speak at TEDxRíodelaPlata, which will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a major festival of ideas focused on the theme of “Time.” The event will explore how people feel, measure, and share this essential dimension of human experience. It will take place on Sunday, November 9th, at the Buenos Aires Convention Center (CEC, Figueroa Alcorta 2099) and will bring together scientists, artists, creators, and thinkers in a space where science, music, creativity, and conversation will intertwine throughout the day.

Human time, our time, and other times. Time as an idea. An idea that lives in our minds or is felt in our bodies. Speed, rhythm, music. Time flies, and some things have only one possible time. We are made of time. As humans we are our lifespan. We try to capture it, to record it in photographs, both paper and digital. Some we will never look at again because we won’t have the time. It is history, it is past, present, and future. The future is made up of our desires, possibilities, and probabilities. And when we want to stop time, we pray, meditate, or perhaps throw a party.