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by ako 3077 days ago
That's the problem: living through it and adjusting to changes.

How do you feel about the chance of living twice as long as your current life expectancy?

Sounds great right?

Does it also feel just as great that you already have twice the life expectancy of 140 years ago?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/die-ano...

1 comments

Does that double life expectancy take into account infant mortality rates? It's not like people living into their 70s was that unheard of back then, it's just that it was easier to die younger.

And yeah, I'm living through it, but it still feels largely like the world I was born into with some additional advances in computing. A huge part of the world is based on incremental improvements on stuff that has existed since the earlier 20th century.