DocumentCode
1282291
Title
Future perfect? [Technology Forecasts]
Author
Pearson, Ian
Volume
5
Issue
9
fYear
2010
Firstpage
74
Lastpage
75
Abstract
The world future society estimates that worldwide average lifespan will increase by one year per year by 2025, and this is echoed by a variety of sources. It is good news from one point of view, but you may immediately recognise that this means major problems for pensions we will have to work longer, if we live longer. At least, that is the conventional wisdom, but it takes no account of the increasing productivity of robots and Al, which may be able to increase wealth faster than we spend it, so actually it is entirely possible that we may need to work less, even if we live longer.
Keywords
biotechnology; research and development; robots; technological forecasting; World Future Society forecasts; biotech; bioviolence; black box economy; human lifespan; synthetic DNA;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Engineering & Technology
Publisher
iet
ISSN
1750-9637
Type
jour
Filename
5534565
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