What's the Future of Human Health?

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In 300 years, we probably can't even dream up the things that people might be dying from at that time. There's probably some continuity to the reasons we die, because the human organs and body won't change too much. But i do wonder, what would some one who lived until they were 250 years old, what ailments would they suffer from?

"The only constant is change", they say.

In this episode, Cal and Steph discuss just how drastically the world has changed and will continue to change.

From the iPhone... to the Internet... to antibiotics... to human flight... to to the sequencing of DNA... to perhaps the most important fact that humans now live more than double as long... these developments all happened within the last 100 years.

Given that things within a single lifetime can go from being inconceivable to ubiquitous, it's mind-blowing to imagine what might be come.

They use the remainder of the episode to explore what might be to come, whether it be proactive medicine, computer-brain interfaces, printed food, digital warfare, and much more.

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