Category: Invest for the Singularity

Dec 13 2024

The Bucket Approach To Financial Planning In An Exponential World

3 new financial “buckets” for financial planning in an exponential world.

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Aug 23 2024

What Is An Extra Year of Healthy Lifespan Worth?

Why Improving Healthy Longevity Is Important Imagine a world where people enjoy longer, healthier lives. With the progress in anti-aging research, this is increasingly becoming a reality. Moreover, it could represent a windfall of over $37 trillion for the United States alone! A study by Scott et al. (2021) titled “The economic value of targeting …

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May 15 2019

Will Human Lifespans Continue to Expand? – Reasons for Optimism

Are you expecting to live in a robust and healthy state well beyond age 100? We are currently used to seeing age 80-ish as the limit with those living beyond that in mostly poor, frail shape. Also, if you look at recent stats from the US that show life expectancy has dropped for 3 years …

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Jun 27 2014

Financing A Long-Lived Future – Zoomer Article

cast your mind into the future when advances in science, nutrition and health care begin to take hold and extend our lifespans. It will be a time when age 80 won’t mean falling prey to the typical decline of mind and body that we normally associate with old age. Instead, he suggests we’ll be healthy, energetic and willing and able to keep learning – and keep working.

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May 22 2014

The End of Retirement as We Know It – Executive Summary

Essentially in every crucial area that retirement planning makes assumptions, dramatic changes are coming. I believe that how we think about and plan our retirement is about to be completely undone.

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Nov 17 2013

Why The Increasing Pace of Innovation and Disruption Matters To Your Life and Retirement

Impacts to your income, your assets, your pension safety, your longevity are just a few reasons that the exponential advances in technology need to be part of your thinking and planning.

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Oct 14 2013

Anti-aging and Rejuvenation Research Is a Surprising Key to Averting Global Financial Crisis

The idea that by helping people live healthier and longer lives we can also greatly help the global economy is, I find, very intriguing. This is the thesis of Alex Zhavoronkov’s book “The Ageless Generation: How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy”.

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Oct 06 2013

The Future And You – Interviews Michael Nuschke of Retirement Singularity

Recently, Stephen Euin Cobb, of the podcast series “The Future and You”, interviewed me on all things “Retirement Singularity”. We got into healthy life extension, technological disruption, life coaching and the impacts to personal finances.
In particular we discussed most of the themes inside the “End of Retirement As We Know It” report.

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Jun 09 2013

Global Future 2045 – Check Out These Promo Videos from Kurzweil, Diamandis, Church, Martin and Others

The Global Future 2045: International Congress is approaching. But no need to wait as some great content from an amazing list of speakers is already on the site. Check out these excellent short clips from Ray Kurzweil, George Church, Peter Diamandis and James Martin

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May 27 2013

Retirement Age 65 No Longer THE Retirement Age

Is moving retirement age to age 70 the solution for retirement funding shortfalls? As we cope with people living longer and longer, still the acceleration of the rate of change is not appreciated. Moving retirement age to age 70 is an incremental idea couched in outdated assumptions.

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