No less than twenty prominent speakers gathered at the 2015 Age Boom Academy to discuss issues related to global demographic changes in an aging world, in an attempt as they say at the Columbia Aging Center, “to help international journalists get beyond the myths”. Richard Eisenberg’s article in Forbes magazine June 16 neatly recaps his
At the front end of this year, I opened with an Aging & Longevity, Conference Round Up, knowing this was just skimming the waves in a vast ocean of dialogue on this topic area. Now at midpoint 2015, it suddenly hit me after much reading, research and conversation that on a regional level around the
Over several years, I’ve tracked “the who is doing what” in the broad field of aging and longevity research; and by extension that means followed the money trail. The scope, scale and number of themes of research is diverse, with partnership initiatives from government, academia and business. Investors seem to have an accelerated interest in
Imagine you walk right up to Jeremey Bentham’s Auto-icon cabinet in the UCL South Cloisters today and after you tweet on the Panopticam Stream, you actually sit down to interview and interact with him. Well something short of that worked in my head when I visited him in London. Now after watching a short You
Or, how Jeremey Bentham was on to something! In this early stage 21st century, our preoccupation with preserving our longevity digitally, chronicling our data, our story and leaving a legacy, has been supported by the arrival of platforms like Facebook’s IfIDie.net and other “digital after life” storefronts like LifeNaut.com with their succinct one word tag