This book is in no way a medical textbook; it only aims at providing a wide in-depth thinking about the growing life expectancy in the current digital age.

With the rising 21st century, flurries of new knowledge and technological opportunities have already merged.

Longevity has recently become a major concern in our current societies. This has long been, in no way, a new issue as life expectancy was known to rise noticeably for a long time with improving life conditions, but the present breakthroughs in science and technology of the world 2.0 have led to deep changes in our way of life so that new prospects have surged.

Now the leading key words are rejuvenation, juvenescence, ageing reversal or, bluntly, transformed, repaired, improved man.

The last part of the book will, tentatively, suggest the consequences and the foreseeable issues such a breakthrough that could afford us in a close future to come.

A question has arisen now: would this 100 years wall come down in a foreseeable future, thus opening up the way for a larger part of us to become seamlessly centenarians, instead of some individuals exceptionally favored by Nature, thus far. A kind of centenarian democratization!

Contents: IntroductionPart 1: Where Does That Come From?:Natural Involvements in Remote Times:Living ConditionsWhat are We Aiming For?Microbes and HealthModern TimesThe Birth of Investigations of the Body:Toward the Era of MachinesThe Instruments and the Discovery of the BodyEntering the Computer EraThe Fight Against Nature's LawsAccumulated Medical Knowledge:From Galileo to Craig VenterAbout New Domains: Biology, Genetics, Cognitics, Artificial IntelligenceIntelligent InstrumentationSocial Behavior and CommunicationPart 2: Medicine and Longevity:Aging and Death:DNA Editing and EpigeneticsNatural Selection and ProcreationThe Origins of DeathThe Uncontrollable Threat of VirusesThe Struggle Against CancerAn Improved Man?Statistics and Associated Mathematics:Death ProfilesThe Calculation of Life ExpectancyRecent EvolutionThe Decline of Child Mortality in the StatisticsThe Inescapable Shock Wave Against the WallTowards an Intelligent MedicineA Foreseeable Future:Previsionists vs SkepticsThe Contribution of MedicineThose Who Take Care of Themselves vs the OthersThe Wall Will Crash for Some; What About the Others?A Possible Global UpheavalThe Evolution Toward the MachineAge-related Ailments and Corresponding Treatments:What About DNA? Is Death Programmed?Other Diseases. Grafts and ImplantsKnowledge of Brain BehaviorExpected Reversal of AgingWill a New Era Emerge for Man?What About the Contribution of Machines?Part 3: Implications and Issues:Issues Arising:Rising Costs of Advanced HealthcareRetraining, Financing and Delaying RetirementForeseeable Creation of Related JobsGlobal Overcrowding and the Coming of the DroidsThe Reinvention of Consumerism and Productive SocietyWhat Model and Place for the Youngers?The Web and the Like:The Role of the Web in the 'Death of the Death'Big Data, a New World to ComeGoogle and Co., and Social ConditioningSocial Networks, Communication and Social IsolationThe X, Y, Z Generations — Will They Become Centenarians with the Help of Social Networks?Key Word for the Future: AdaptabilityWill an Artificial Being be the One to Cross the Wall?:The Failing Old Rules of ProcreationOverpopulation vs HealthcareDeveloped Countries vs the OthersWill Artificial Biological Procreation Become the Rule?Dialogue with a Machine?How Far Will Artificial Intelligence Progress?Waiting for a Digital Life and Eternity?Will Cyborgs or Androids Cross the Wall?What About Energy?Conclusion
Readership: General public interested in the topic of ageing.Longevity00

Jean-Pierre Fillard

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