Thankful For Singularity Technology
It’s been a difficult year.
And, while futurists are looking forward into the 21st century and beyond, our society seems to be looking back into the 1920s and 1930s. The Great Depression gets far more searches than the Singularity.
Politics seems to be locked into the same old debates on the haves and have-nots, an eternal debate with its latest incarnation erupting in the 19th century.
Meanwhile the trends toward massive technological change continues in labs and research facilities, universities and think tanks.
Here’s a great example from Wired Magazine of medical changes that will have profound change on how we age, or if we will age.
This will be the first wave of a revolution. There are some pretty smart people who agree:
“It’s going to revolutionize western medicine,” said Doug Wallace, a pioneer of mitochondrial medicine at the University of California at Irvine. “All the things that are common for an aging society, and nobody worried about when they died of infectious disease,” he said, could be treated.
Most people can barely get around what this will mean for their average lives, but there will be ripple effect throughout the economic sector that will be palpable to all. Billions, if not trillions, of dollars are pulled from the economy and placed in research and treatment of diseases. People are pulled from their homes and jobs because of these diseases. Companies must replace workers. Families are wracked with worry and stress.
What happens when people get more skilled, more knowledgable and HEALTHIER over the years?
Lower health costs. Higher productivity. Higher earnings. More consumer spending. Smarter consumer spending.
This doesn’t mean to say that there won’t be struggles in the near future; but the seeds are being sown right now that, if groomed properly, will mean better things to come.
Related posts:
- Wealth Singularity Technology Is (Almost) Here
- North Pole Research Lab Masters Singularity Technology
- Singularity Update: Has the Singularity been Delayed?
- Money and Technology: The Wealth Singularity
- The Singularity and the Post-Political World
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