In the last video, I've mentioned how I've been asked
to make predicitons for the year 2060. In the last one
I've focused on education, that's obviously what I'm
working on now, and I have some opinions on that. But
what I want to do in this video is do
slightly more broad and wild predictions, and my one
prediction I'll make is on probably not
going to predict the real reality of 2060 and the
probably big things to predict, I will completely
miss. But with that out of the way,
it's fun to predict things, so let's give it a shot.
So the first area that I will predict is what is
going to happen in the field of medicine.
And in particular I think that the human life
span is going to increase dramatically.
So, I'll be conservative, and say that the lifespan
is going to be, especially in the developed world
and hopefully by the year 2060 most of the world
is developed, the average human lifespan is going
to be over one hundred years old. And I won't
say whether that's going to be a good or a bad
thing. There's arguments either way about the
proper way to live and what happens to global
populations..But if the world is for the most part
developed and educated you actually
will probably have a lower rate of reproduction
and so you might actually have some space in the
world for older people. But this I has a very
strong change of happening. Because we are starting
to understand the molecular basis of aging. It's
not a given thing that because of some form of wear
and tear things have to die have to die after 70
years or 80 years or 90 years. And we are starting
to understand the mechanisms and how to maybe
improve the repair mechanisms or how to augment
it in some way. So I definietly think this is
going to happen. I don't know if it's going to
be a positive or a negative, but it's likely to
happen. The next thing, and this is still kind

Random Predictions for 2060

Random Predictions for 2060 : Sal's random predictions for the year 2060