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Why humanity should embrace its ‘inevitable’ extinction

MoMa curator Paola Antonelli believes that humans will become extinct and that there will be other species or other worlds after us. But she says we can design a more elegant extinction in order to make sure that the next dominant species will remember us with respect.

This interview took place at Dezeen Day 2019 at the BFI, London.

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