We will be old one day; Can we still be learning, working, and living?
The entirety of human beings’ innovations and technological progress is directly or indirectly focused towards one constant endeavour - to push death as far as possible.
Or inversely put, to live longer.
And we have been witnessing consistent success in this metric. From the Stone Age to today, with each passing year, we have pushed death a little further away. The developed nations did it first, but the developing ones are now following suit. In 1950, an average human could expect to live ~46 years. Today, we plan our lives expecting to live till 70.
And the number continues to rise further.
This trend may be broadly observed positively, but living longer has more nuanced implications. The most concerning is where ageing is both unproductive and unfit. Our endeavour should be not just to live longer but also to be healthy and productive for longer.
In the last 20 years, Healthy Life Expectancy (…
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