The director of MIT’s AgeLab smiles a lot. So?
With his positive insights, it’s hard not to smile :-)
Longevity studies used to be a dull downer — focusing on a problem to be solved (older people outliving their usefulness and going downhill).
Now, thanks to people like Joseph F. Coughlin, it’s starting to be an exciting upper, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be seized.
Coughlin is Director of MIT AgeLab, created in 1999 “to invent new ideas and creatively translate technologies into practical solutions that improve people’s health and enable them to ‘do things’ throughout the lifespan,” according to its online statement of purpose.
The opportunity calls for “innovations in how products are designed, services are delivered [and] policies are implemented,” the statement continues. all of this in “critical importance to our quality of life tomorrow.”
The new demands of longer-living people call for the “creative use of technology to respond to those demands,” and this “will disrupt existing business models and public policies in industrialized and developing economies around the world.”
Listen to Coughlin in this TEDxBoston talk …
And here’s a link to his AgeLab:
His new book: The Longevity Economy: Unlocking the World’s Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market
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Were living longer!
So why not live longer better, maybe much better, much longer?
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