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On Our Minds

Leonardo (Re)Reads: Breakthroughs Reshaping Life, Intelligence, and Matter

From artificial intelligence to gene editing, today’s defining breakthroughs are not only expanding what we can do. They are transforming what it means to be human.

For over five decades, Leonardo has convened artists, scientists, and thinkers at this frontier—translating technological change into cultural insight. Long before these ideas entered mainstream discourse, the Leonardo community was already exploring networked intelligence, non-human collaboration, and the limits of perception.

Can the Arts Help to Save the World?

Editorial by Ricardo Dal Farra

We live in a world that is reaching a critical point, at which the equilibrium between a healthy environment, the energy our society needs to maintain or improve this lifestyle and our interconnected economies could quickly change, from the current complex balance to a completely new reality wherein unbalance would be the rule and human beings would have to become more creative than ever before in order to survive. Have the arts a role in all this? Do artists have a responsibility in this context?