Is Robotics a Better Way to Deal With Mental Health?

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One in five adults, a 20 % of people in the us have experienced mental health issues. In two thousand 20, suicide is the leading cause of death among people aged ten to 34 in the us. There are many socially accepted forms of expressing your discontent with the world. But i think we're gong to look back on this and be like, what about the human brain? We'll have much more elegant solutions for helping people navigate life or at least help them understand their experience in the world.

"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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