“Despite 100-year life spans, there is not much sign of 100-year thinking”. How we should amplify our imagination about longer lives

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Long but easy-to-read and thought-packed essay from Geoff Mulgan, writing for Demos Helsinki, on the great opportunities in longer life-spans – would that we were imaginative enough to seize them. Cross-post below:

This piece is about one of the greatest questions of our time:

  • how to make most of the extraordinary good luck of ever-longer life expectancies
  • how nations can be strategic as they manage the huge demographic shifts of the years ahead
  • and how to handle the transition of care needed over the next few decades

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