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The longevity issue

September 2019

Advances in longevity medicine may be coming. What are the challenges and opportunities of a world in which people live longer and healthier lives?

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Letter from the editor

Editor’s letter: old age is over—if you want it.

Features

Categorized in Humans and technology
Why you shouldn’t fear the gray tsunami
Many worry that aging populations will doom the world economy and make life miserable for everyone. Here’s why that’s wrong.
Categorized in Silicon Valley
Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re all over 65.
Inside Senior Planet, the tech-savviest retirement community on earth.
Categorized in Biotechnology
What if aging weren’t inevitable, but a curable disease?
If this controversial idea gains acceptance, it could radically change the way we treat getting old.
Categorized in Humans and technology
“Old age” is made up—and this concept is hurting everyone
Products designed for older people reinforce a bogus image of them as passive and feeble.
Categorized in Humans and technology
Young pioneers on their hopes for technology, and older trailblazers on their regrets
Categorized in Humans and technology
Why are products for older people so ugly?
As the market for products aimed at older users explodes, some entrepreneurs are turning to a radical idea: actually get the customers involved.
Categorized in Biotechnology
The transhumanists who want to live forever
For a core of longevity true believers, the time to intervene is now.
Categorized in Biotechnology
I tried Prolon’s starvation diet so you wouldn’t have to
A diet based on caloric restriction might make you live longer. It’ll certainly feel like longer.
Categorized in Biotechnology
Don’t count on having kids if you freeze your eggs
Michele Harrison froze 21 eggs. Only one was suitable for IVF.

Also in this issue
- Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth?
  Editing the epigenome, which turns our genes on and off, could be the “elixir of life.”
  Categorized in Biotechnology
- The anti-aging drug that’s just around the corner
  We will soon learn if a much-hyped, rapamycin-like drug can boost the immune response by targeting how the body ages.
  Categorized in Biotechnology
- A doctor and medical ethicist argues life after 75 is not worth living
  Ezekiel Emanuel questions “whether our consumption is worth our contribution” in old age.
  Categorized in Humans and technology
- Longer, healthier lives will spark a new generational conflict
  As older generations stay productive for longer, they will hold on to more of the wealth and power.
  Categorized in Humans and technology
- Health-care costs are soaring, but don’t blame old people
  The per-person allocation for those over 65 is actually shrinking
  Categorized in Tech policy
- I’ll have you know
  A futuristic fiction story about starting over at 100 years old
  Categorized in Humans and technology
- The topic of longevity takes after its name
  This publication has been writing about human longevity for at least 90 years. In some ways what’s amazing is how little has changed.
  Categorized in Humans and technology

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