100 years ago, three things would kill most people: infection, childbirth, and a bad winter. We forget how recently the baseline of human life was simply surviving the year.
According to Ray Kurzweil, by 2030-2032 we will reach Longevity Escape Velocity.
(He has had a prediction accuracy of 86% so far)
Maintaining good health until then should be everyone's biggest focus, and you'll likely live long enough to witness a post-scarcity world where today's luxuries are as normal for the average person as some of today's normalities were a luxury 100 years ago.
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Your number one asset right now is your health.
If you manage to survive the next 15-20 years while maintaining good health, chances are you will reach Longevity Escape Velocity.
If you are under 40 and healthy you will likely see the following during your natural lifespan:
> Longevity Escape Velocity
> Full Dive VR Simulations
> Robots as your butlers/assistants
> Working becomes optional
> Energy becomes very cheap/free
> Post-scarcity world
> Colonisation of other planets
> New answers to our existence
> Much more..