By Sonia Arrison
Humanity is at the cusp of an exhilarating toughness revolution. the 1st individual to reside to one hundred fifty years has most likely already been born. what's going to your lifestyles appear like should you reside to be over a hundred? Will you be fit? Will your marriage desire a sundown clause? How lengthy will you want to paintings? Will you end one occupation at sixty-five basically to return to college to profit a brand new one? after which, will you be fortunately operating for one more sixty years? probably you’ll be a mother or father to a baby and a grandparent even as. Will the realm turn into overpopulated? and the way will dwelling longer have an effect on your funds, your loved ones existence, and your perspectives on faith and the afterlife? In a hundred Plus, futurist Sonia Arrison takes us on an eye-opening trip to the longer term at our doorsteps, the place technological know-how and expertise are starting to transform lifestyles as we all know it. She introduces us to the folk remodeling our lives: the bright scientists and genius inventors and the billionaires who fund their paintings. The incredible advances to increase our lives—and reliable health—are virtually the following. within the very close to destiny clean organs for transplants can be grown in laboratories, cloned stem cells will deliver formerly unstoppable illnesses to their knees, and residing earlier a hundred often is the rule, no longer the exception. Sonia Arrison brings over a decade of expertise getting to know and writing approximately state-of-the-art advances in technological know-how and expertise to a hundred Plus, portray a brilliant photograph of a destiny that only in the near past gave the look of technology fiction, yet now's very genuine. a hundred Plus is the 1st e-book to provide readers a finished knowing of ways life-extending discoveries will swap our social and monetary worlds. This illuminating and essential textual content may also help us navigate the exciting trip of lifestyles past a hundred years.
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