FLIRTING WITH THE FUTURE | Mārcis Auziņš and Mārcis Auziņš.
When music meets science. Dialogue 3.
The 3rd lecture in an audiovisual series about the future, which we cannot predict, but can try to imagine and shape.
Professor - Mārcis Auziņš:
“Can the future be predicted? Probably not. But it can be sensed, its first outlines noticed, and, most importantly, shaped at least a little. “Flirting with the Future” is an engaging audiovisual story created by the two Mārcis Auziņšes, a physicist and a musician, about humankind’s attempts to glimpse tomorrow, bringing together physics, philosophy, music, literature, and the latest ideas in science.
From Heraclitus’ insight that everything is constantly changing, to the paradoxes of quantum physics and the age of artificial intelligence, the listener will encounter a surprising truth: history’s most significant events are almost never predicted precisely. The internet, world wars, pandemics, and scientific revolutions arrived like Taleb’s “black swans,” changing the world at the very moment we least expected it.
Yet the future is not only what will happen to us. It is also what we dare to imagine. Every great change begins as a question in someone’s mind, as a bold idea that at first seems impossible. Scientists, artists, and dreamers often see the future before others do, because they ask questions no one has asked yet.
Flirting with the Future is not a story about prophecy. It is a story about curiosity, courage, and the human ability to create a world that does not yet exist. Because the future is not a place we go to. It is shaped by our ideas, choices, and imagination already today.”
Featuring:
professor, physicist - Mārcis Auziņš
guitarist and composer - Mārcis Auziņš
Premiere: November 6 at 6:00 PM | Daile Music House
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