My hands are sweaty, my heart is racing as the sound of footsteps grows louder in my ear, alerting me that Marie Curie, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris and to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry, is very near. Suddenly I have discovered that I have forgotten everything I had prepared to say. Nothing good if I want to start a conversation.
Although your death occurred in 1934, 89 years ago, you meet the requirement of having lived more than 100 years ago. You were born in 1867, 156 years ago! And all your discoveries have allowed a great development of humanity as we know it today.
You were a pioneer in the study of radioactivity, without your advances we would not be able to have an X-ray, to see the state of our bones. In my case, you were an important part in my healing, thanks to your studies it was possible to apply radiation at the oncological level, which helped me to heal. So in a few words, thanks to you and your studies, I am alive at this moment, in addition to all the other scientists and doctors who have contributed their grain of sand for the healing / eradication of the disease.
The world you lived in and my world are very different. Here, in my time we live in a digital age, which would have made your research much easier. There is something called a computer, it is a strange box that has a life of its own, and if you know how to communicate with it, it gives you magical answers. I think that in your time someone might have said that it was a product of the devil.
On the other hand there are automobiles, although you saw them very rudimentary in your time, now they are an integral part of all human beings. By the way, traveling around the world has become easier, there are airplanes, with the capacity to transport many people and in a matter of hours a person can be in another continent, fascinating, isn't it?
Finally I want to talk about something that has brought a lot of controversy lately. It is AI (Artificial Intelligence), and although I do not understand very well what the subject is about, what I know is that it is about programs (as a kind of succession of instructions), to create machines with the same capabilities as human beings. I think it is difficult to understand, I am living in this era and I have not yet managed to assimilate it completely.
What I am sure is that AI is here to stay and it is better that I adapt to it as soon as possible, so I can take advantage of all the good things it can bring. Of course there are detractors, but remember in your time, how many detractors you had, and yet today you are remembered by many, for your studies led to great advances in medicine, industry and agriculture.
Thank you Marie Curie for listening to me, I hope you have understood a little of the era in which I live. Information advances have been so rapid in the last 100 years that I think it's hard to imagine.
"Death is so sure of its victory that it gives us a lifetime of advantage" popular saying.
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