Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.4: Dear younger self
Dear younger self, It’s been a while since I tried to talk to you. It’s been so long that I don’t remember anymore. I was counting the days, but at some point, I ran out of fingers. I stopped. Counting got heavier… so I just stopped. You’ve grown up. I watch you, however, silently through my […]
Art and artificial intelligence: End or Beginning?
If you had told someone, a few years ago, that artificial intelligence (or AI) could create a complete work of art, they would have laughed – and rightly so. However, we have now reached an age where even this has become a reality. Art has been influenced and changed by technology. Now this change […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.3: For Ithaca
“As you set out for Ithaca, hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.” writes the great poet, K. Cavafis, and these verses cannot leave us untouched. Cavafy’s journey is not a return journey – in contrast to the Odyssean one- but a journey of departure and Cavafy’s Ithaca appears as […]
A song, a moment…
Since being inside the womb, we hear our mother and father talking to us, confiding to us their dreams for our future, their worries, their impatience to meet and hold us in their arms. But, more than anything else, we hear them singing softly and melodically to us. This continues after birth with lullabies, games, […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.2: How many excuses have you let go of?
Imagine this: you on a bench in a park, next to the sea or in a square. Life around you. People talking, playing, running, enjoying the sun, moving quickly to go to work. Now, press pause on the image and process what you see. A boy whose balloon got out of his hand. A girl’s […]
An article about those who cannot read
The twentieth century has been identified as the age of information. Today, at the beginning of the next century, information remains abundant, the ways to obtain it are dozens and the access to it is easier than ever. However, there is still a more-than-seven-digits number of illiterate people. Illiterate people, i.e. people who do not […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.1: But I still dare to dream
But I still dare to dream When we were little children, we often woke up in the middle of the night from some bad dream; dragons, monsters, witches were just a few of the thoughts that kept us awake at night. Our mother would stroke our hair, telling us reassuringly “it was just a bad dream, […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.1: But I still dare to dream
When we were little children, we often woke up in the middle of the night from some bad dream; dragons, monsters, witches were just a few of the thoughts that kept us awake at night. Our mother would stroke our hair, telling us reassuringly “it was just a bad dream, it’s gone, it’s gone”, and we’d close […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.0: And suddenly, I saw myself through your eyes
My name is Katerina and, in my journey as a human so far, I have understood a few things. So here I am in front of my computer screen typing these words to make my own attempt to talk to you about two of them: moments and people. Or rather, better, to talk to you […]
