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Drawn from what Saloni Dattani said
demographics Who there will be: birth rates, population decline, and what a shrinking cohort does to everything downstream.
Many other predictions have already been broken, as life expectancy has continued to rise.
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A human lifespan of about 90 to 100 years is right, and living forever is not something to want.
Dattani observes that every predicted ceiling on human life expectancy has so far been broken. Hansson says a lifespan of about ninety to a hundred years is right and that living forever is not something to want. One is a record of forecasts failing; the other is a preference, and a preference is not refuted by a trend — which is exactly why they sit here together.
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