Steven Johnson & Michael Specter on the Future of Life
The Next Big Idea
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The Third Act of Immortality
If people are fundamentally at full capacity when they're 75 or 80, what happens to society? If you teach at a university, this is a trivial thing in real life, but university professors don't want to stop teaching at 65. And so part of me thinks that as we do, whether we push back to pass the comma boundary, or if we just remain very healthy into 100, either way, we're going to have to kind of reinvent that third act.
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