Steven Johnson & Michael Specter on the Future of Life
The Next Big Idea
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The Immortality of Society
I think the last third of life is going to be a really tricky area because you're dealing with people who have very firm views of what they want and don't want out of life. We need to figure out what is meaningful to a society that maybe doesn't have the kind of scarcity or disease that we face right now. And that's a big project. Is there, this is what I keep coming back to. One of the things that I've written a lot about immortality and other things is reminding people that along with vaccines and smartphones and the internet, we also have a very important tradition of innovation in terms of building new institutions. You couldn't eradicate smallpox without inventing something
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