The Language of Communicating Longevity 📣 As the industry grows what narrative best communicates potential + expectations to the general public and policy makers. futureoflongevity.org and VitaDAO 💛 Wed, December 1 -12 pm ET @TwitterSpaces LINK 👉🏼 x.com/i/spaces/1nAKE…

Characteristics of life in technological society & modernity: - disorientation - confusion - normlessness - rootlessness - anomie - ennui - hedonism - hypercomplexity - hyperspecialisation - massification - extremification - acceleration - imposed change - 'progress' as religion

"So, in terms of imminent events, can we predict anything at all? No. …look at what was said days before the Berlin Wall came down, to understand that nobody can predict even a few hours ahead… take my word for it, you can find silly statements 24h in advance… So I say again:

Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality (2012) nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13164/… ~900 page review from what is now nam.edu showing how incredibly detailed & tricky it is to investigate rare, provable cases of vaccine injury. Anecdotes & headlines aren't enough

"Faster and faster. Never mind where, so long as it's fast" -Jacques Ellul

"Bengio refused to grant the premise. … “You don’t think that your brain is a machine?” Then he asked: “Why would a machine that works on silicon not be able to perform any of the computations that our brain does?”" noemamag.com/the-danger-of-… (May 2024)

"Why speculate?", a talk by Michael Crichton International Leadership Forum La Jolla, California April 26, 2002 NOBODY KNOWS THE FUTURE

"All the material interests, the automobiles and radios and skyscrapers we have, don't fill the hungry soul." Carl Jung