Our curiosity is our biggest superpower. It gets us thinking, learning, moving... flying.

“We are currently cruising at an altitude of 34,000 feet, at an airspeed of 400 miles/hour.”

Recently, while flying for the umpteenth time this year, I indulged deeper into the usual announcement by the pilot. The thought of being inside a metal tube, thousands of feet above the ground, as part of my regular work schedule, was an intriguing realisation of how we have successfully unlocked the curiosity of ‘flight’ and made it into a fairly routine occurrence.

“The sky is as blue as it gets. The sun is shining bright on the city, and we expect a smooth landing.”

I looked outside my window, at the gradually unveiling cityscape as seen from the sky, a view not in-built to the human vision, but one that opens so many new horizons about how we understand the world. This new visual perspective is indeed the next frontier of technological advancement that is rapidly achieving scale, and affec…