Elise Hu

You end by saying that curiosity is now our biggest limit to exploration.

What do you mean by that?

Where do you want to explore next?

Or what's a question that you're still trying to answer?

Before we wrap, what are things that you want the audience to learn, feel, and do after your talk?

Fail your way to success.

Engineer and ocean explorer, Eric Stackpole.

Eric, thank you so much.

That was Eric Stackpole at TED Next 2025 and in conversation with me, Elise Hu.

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