DISQUS

Next Big Future: Vision of the Future Mostly Unchanged: You Get What You Pay for

  • ZZMike · 1 year ago
    We all know how life extension research and application will go - we've read it a dozen or so times in science-fiction stories and novels. The rich - and not just the rich, but the ultra-rich - will be the first beneficiaries. And since they know that there are only so many habitable hectares on the planet, they are going to keep it to themselves.

    Even today, when we don't have that much extension, we do have a "die in a young-looking body" technology, one that's affordable to the merely rich.

    In terms of funding, why should nanotech (for one) have to have a different funding model than any other? Companies develop a technology, using their R&D budget, bring it to market, sell it to make a profit. Investors get in early by buying stock in the companies they think are going to survive the weeding-out process.

    Let's do the same here - it's worked in the past.
  • nextbigfuture · 1 year ago
    the current best life extension technologies and methods are mostly freely available to whoever is sufficiently personally motivated.

    1. eat right and exercise
    2. eating right involving okinawa diets (more fish, veggies and fruit), go for reduced calories (easier even for poorer people because it means buying less food) It also means eating out less and buying groceries and making your own meals
    3. Know your own family cancer history. Even poor people can ask their parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts what their cancer and cardiovascular and diabetic history is. Look online (at a library if needed) and find best procedures and diets to follow with the assumption that you need to watch out for those things.
    4. Follow safe sex practices and drive carefully while wearing a seatbelt
    5. Don't smoke, avoid drugs or drink to excess (cheaper, don't have buy cigarettes or alcohol or drugs)
    6. Avoid a violent lifestyle (ie avoid getting shot or tossed in jail)

    Even someone poor has a better than 50% chance of outliving Michael Crighton (multi-millionaire) who died of cancer at 66.Especially a developed country poor. 70% of people in developed countries live past 70 (World health Organization stats).