What happens when we all live to 100? Interesting article in the Atlantic on aging. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. What Happens When We All Live to 100? The first lake, @ Donoho Basin, McCarthy AK, 2017, Writing and working for a spiritual, political, and cultural revolution. 5. Six months after Calico’s charter was announced, Craig Venter, the biotech entrepreneur who in the 1990s conducted a dramatic race against government laboratories to sequence the human genome, also founded a start-up that seeks ways to slow aging. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. What Happens When We All Live to 100? ( Log Out /  NYT: Maybe a little anti-Catholicism is a good thing when it comes to Barrett, When Biden calls a “lid,” Democrats wet the bed — and Trump starts mocking. 81. Learn how your comment data is processed. Change ). Centenarians may become the norm, rather than rarities who generate a headline in the local newspaper. The Atlantic Can Dennis Quaid and CeCe Winans help Americans defeat despair on coronavirus? - If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising & far-reaching ways. Originally Posted by Chaffeetrekker I once interviewed a 100 year old man for my College newspaper...I asked him what was his secret to living to 100 . (retired, respect, husband) - Retirement -Social Security, age, moving, relocation, finance, savings, early, hobbies, nursing homes - Page 4 - City-Data Forum Already, the institute’s researchers have quintupled the life span of laboratory worms. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Posted by. Pie in the sky? Close. And everybody should save for their older years, no matter if that is 70's or 90's. In 1880, the average life expectancy of someone born in the U.S. was 39.4 years old. -- If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising and far-reaching ways. Writer. ( Log Out /  Change ). Buck is not alone in its pursuit. These weird, unsettling photos show that AI is getting smarter, Whataburger employee says she was fired for wearing a Black Lives Matter face mask, Trump’s official announcement of Amy Coney Barrett as his third Supreme Court nominee. 5 years ago. All Rights Reserved. My primary writing project right now is a novel set in remote bush Alaska, of the magical realism genre wherein an earnest and independent young woman finds a mysterious radio belonging to her grandmother, a device that has paranormal bandwidth and a disturbing ability to mess with one's mental stability. Projections of ever-longer life spans assume no incredible medical discoveries—rather, that the escalator ride simply continues. Copyright HotAir.com/Salem Media. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Late in 2013, Google brought its trove of cash into the game, founding a spin-off called the California Life Company (known as Calico) to specialize in longevity research. When not in McCarthy, you'll typically find me in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, writing and working with local activists. Pie in the sky? The few people who grew old were assumed, because of their years, to have won the favor of the gods. written by Jonathan Erdman. ( Log Out /  Now it’s about double that, and we still have a hard time squeezing everything in. But as the typical life expectancy increases, we need to change things like retirement age, social security, etc. Article: What happens when we all live to 100? 5 years ago. Projections of ever-longer life spans assume no incredible medical discoveries—rather, that the escalator ride simply continues. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. In 1880, the average life expectancy of someone born in the U.S. was 39.4 years old. =), “Thomas Perls, a professor at Boston Medical Center who analyzes the genomes of centenarians, notes that Seventh-Day Adventists enjoy about a decade more life expectancy than peers of their birth years: ‘They don’t drink or smoke, most are vegetarians, they exercise regularly even when old, and take a true weekly day of rest.’ But what really strikes Perls about Seventh-Day Adventists is that they maintain large social groups. Two small datum, one from each section, that were original to me were these: The strongest correlation that can be found to living older is from education and not diet, and it is speculated that Medicare and Social Security spending will reach a ration of 5 to 1 to public investment by 2022. – The Atlantic, Follow Jonathan Erdman, writer on WordPress.com, Black Against Empire by Bloom and Martin (2012). u/anutensil. What Happens When We All Live to 100? Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. What Happens When We All Live to 100? - If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising & far-reaching ways. I f you’re looking to live to 100, you may want to watch more than your diet. This report comes in two sections, unofficially, and is filled with many interesting tidbits and extrapolations.