I'm middle-aged, so I'm of the generation that saw the film The Matrix in real time. Younger Gen Z people probably don't know about it anymore. The screenplay was written by the Chaushaski sisters, who were also pioneers in the transgender movement, It is the story of a human being's awakening to the truth in a virtual world ruled by machines.
The main character Neo is a programmer. He discovers that the world he thought was real is a mechanical dream, He escapes from the capsule and lands in the "real world". From there, he trains and rewrites the rules of the world, He flies and installs knowledge in an instant. --When I saw that scene, I thought that this is what "the moment when the restrictions of human beings are removed" means.
Today, we engineers are approaching that point. With AI, we can do the work of a hundred people in seconds. There is almost nothing digitally 'impossible' anymore. AI can write code, design, conceptualise and even revise. Watching this speed is like the moment Neo remembers how to fly.
But recently I think. I think it's not just in the digital world. Many of the things we assume we can't do physically, We may just be prohibiting it in our own minds.
When I was working in a start-up, 'This is not my role', 'This is impossible', I was putting my own restrictions on myself, saying, "This is not my role" or "This is impossible". Before I knew it, this habit of thinking had become stressful enough to destroy my body. But now I am gradually realising that this was an illusion.
The world is freer than we think. It's not gravity's fault that we can't fly, It's because of who we are that we think we can't fly.
Know that thou canst fly. -In that moment, you are no longer tied to the ground.