That's f'ing depressing. I'm 43, with 39 years left, and I don't feel old but apparently 56% of people are younger, so I'm no spring chicken, lol. It'll also be maybe a miracle if I see 2060.
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#22> You are older than 100.0% of the world population > There are people younger and people older than you Wow, the more you know.
I get the same…
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#23for my projected lifespan, i don't think this thing is taking into account my blue zone diet, exercise or my intermittent fasting.
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#24Very much makes me question sitting in front of a computer in a career I didn't like while my kids hang out in another room separate from me.
go to the room next door and spend 30 min playing with them. no one can stop you but you. and you probably won't regret it.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll be up there, but should see my kids reach my current age. Hard for me to be optimistic about the world they'll inherit, though; I'm very concerned about the effects of climate change and the effects of things like diminishing ground water supply and ocean warming. Living in the US, I'm also concerned about their ability to afford healthcare if something catastrophic happens and the lack of meaningful social safe…
Not OP but short answer: In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death), brain augmentation, AI/machines able to do many things for us, fusion/renewable-based energy abundance, and more. In almost every measurable way the world is better now than it was 20 years ago, and 20 years before that. This is likely to continue. Climate change is concerning, but totally addressable…
> In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death)
This is laughable to the point where I suspect trolling/parody. Regardless, there should indeed be scientific advances ahead of us in the next 40 years. With the ongoing collapse in forward-looking fertility rates, there certainly better be.
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#26What's with the pessimism here? Be proud, we've reached peak human, humans have never been so successful - in numbers! After all, it's all about numbers.
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#27I have this longstanding and pointless goal to live to see the American Tricentennial. According to this site I'll miss it by 10 years!
It also just so happens that I'm right in the middle of my (projected) lifespan, which would certainly qualify me as middle-aged. But I refuse to identify as such because I feel Boomers turned it into such a negative phrase. Boomers just generally seemed to obsess over aging and retiring and dying in a way that I thankfully don't see among my Millenial and Gen X peers.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not OP but short answer: In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death), brain augmentation, AI/machines able to do many things for us, fusion/renewable-based energy abundance, and more. In almost every measurable way the world is better now than it was 20 years ago, and 20 years before that. This is likely to continue. Climate change is concerning, but totally addressable…
> In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death) This is laughable to the point where I suspect trolling/parody. Regardless, there should indeed be scientific advances ahead of us in the next 40 years. With the ongoing collapse in forward-looking fertility rates, there certainly better be.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say immortality, but cures to standard diseases and ailments that lead to a shorter lifespan would be in my level of expectations.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll be up there, but should see my kids reach my current age. Hard for me to be optimistic about the world they'll inherit, though; I'm very concerned about the effects of climate change and the effects of things like diminishing ground water supply and ocean warming. Living in the US, I'm also concerned about their ability to afford healthcare if something catastrophic happens and the lack of meaningful social safe…
Not OP but short answer: In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death), brain augmentation, AI/machines able to do many things for us, fusion/renewable-based energy abundance, and more. In almost every measurable way the world is better now than it was 20 years ago, and 20 years before that. This is likely to continue. Climate change is concerning, but totally addressable…
Depends, the current system only allows profitable changes.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death) This is laughable to the point where I suspect trolling/parody. Regardless, there should indeed be scientific advances ahead of us in the next 40 years. With the ongoing collapse in forward-looking fertility rates, there certainly better be.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say immortality, but cures to standard diseases and ailments that lead to a shorter lifespan would be in my level of expectations.
It is conceivable that we might have organ replacement for the most commonly failing bodily organs, and cancer treatments that come close to the term "cure".
It is inconceivable that any of this will be available to 90+% of the human race, or even to most people in developed countries.
Insulin has been available to diabetics for well over a century now. And yet..... well, technology is the not the greatest obstacle.