While listening to her father’s artificial voice, Lucy Hawking was overcome with emotion.
Prior to his passing in March, Stephen Hawking had recorded the message.
One of his last works, Brief Answers to Big Questions, was released in London last month.
At 7.30 following the event, Lucy Hawking said, “I have finding it rather hard to acclimatise to this thought that’s he’s gone since in so many ways it seems like he’s still here.”
It’s nearly unbearable to think about Christmas since we miss him so badly.
The late Stephen Hawking, in a taped message that included passages from his book, expressed concern about cultural isolation and alluded to Brexit and Trump’s presidency as potential risks to education.
When it comes to immigration and education, the global backlash against experts — even scientists — is intensifying under the influence of both Brexit and Trump’s election.
She told Australian media that her father was worried about public dialogue becoming more polarised after the book release.
There is a lot on his mind right now, and I believe one of those things is the global scope of today’s difficulties, and the fact that we are all busy splitting ourselves and becoming increasingly more fractious and furious because of it, she added.
Having a genius as a father
With his first wife, Jane Wilde, Stephen Hawking had two more children, Robert and Tim. Lucy is the third of the three.
She said that she only realised her father’s brilliance as a parent much later in life.
In her adolescent years, she believed she understood everything and that he was clueless.
“I used to tell him that a lot, which is humiliating to admit now.
THEN I WOULD SAY THINGS LIKE “WHAT DO YOU KNOW?”” TO MY DAD.”
Eventually, as an adult, I had to accept he did know quite a bit.
Hawking’s intelligence wasn’t the only thing that made him distinct; he also battled motor neurone illness for half a century.
Lucy said, “I recognised that our family was unusual.” Lucy remarked.
“Having a handicapped parent was quite uncommon in the 1970s.”
That was particularly impressive since, unlike my father, you seldom saw individuals with impairments out and about and actively participating in life.
When it comes to reaching one’s greatest potential, every mind need a spark.
Speaking in his last audio clip, Stephen Hawking talks about instructors and how they helped him to learn to read and write.
In order for a mind to reach its full potential, “a spark of curiosity and wonder,” Hawking added, is typically provided by a teacher.
Although her father was a teacher to all of his children, she never felt pressured to live up to his intellect, Lucy Hawking remarked.
The woman said, “It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that I would never be as far-reaching as my father was, and I’m OK with that,” she said.
“I’m a proud supporter of his ideals,” he says.
As Hawking argues in his book, “Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves,” there is no such thing as a God or an afterlife.
At some point in the next century, he expects that computers will surpass humans in intellect.
Climate change, time travel, and the future are additional topics he discusses in his writing.
There are so many threats to the planet, it’s hard for him to remain positive, he said.
It’s impossible to keep up with all of the hazards.
