In this seminar we will address some of the very big questions in science and technology. The topics discussed will range from the foundations of space and time, the nature of reality, the possibility of free will, the origins and the future of life on earth, to solutions in the age of climate crisis and current advances in quantum technologies and artificial intelligence.

While science has provided diverse paths for tackling big questions, the technologies that are developed for this purpuse are never neutral: e.g. how, why, and when energy is being produced has major ecological, political, and economical consequences.

In this seminar, the science behind different means and limits of knowledge production will be explored by tackling the frontiers of our current scientific understanding as well as technological limits.