Ask A Genius 155 – Feedback and Disruptions
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/16
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Rick Rosner: Rocks have very little feedback. Living things have all sorts of feedback systems that help maintain, help living things survive under changing conditions. Some of those feedback systems are not know yet. I know a guy working on this stuff. He’s got a theory that as evolved creatures we have lots and lots of feedback systems that may not be at the gene expression level. It may be among all sorts of systems in the body that haven’t been discovered yet.
Yet people are working to find out all of the different interactions among various systems in the body at all sorts of different levels. The molecular level on up to the organ level. Within 20 years, most of those things will have been found out and many of those mechanisms within the body will be addressable via medical therapy if things go wrong or if things wear out, which will lead to all sorts of disruptions because we can pretty much figure that—
One disruption is that at first richer people and richer countries will have better access to life extending and life improving therapies than people in poorer countries, which hasn’t been a significantly contentious issue yet because under the current conditions we all die pretty soon. The highest average lifespan is still not 90, even in the most developed countries in the world. And then in the most hellacious countries in the world, the average lifespan might be 50.
Those are so fucked up that they have other things to worry about besides getting pissed at people in countries living significantly longer than average. But the average lifespan for countries starts surpassing or approaching 100, and creeps up towards 120.
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