• 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