A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram | Monica Byrne

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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, whe