Rapid advances in science, tech, and artificial intelligence mean we re closer than ever to living forever. But eternity is nothing like what we imagined.
Today was the last day of my teaching for the year (and indeed, most of next year too), so with any luck the links won’t open with my complaining about perching my gigantic laptop across my knees in the most over-crowded bus known to man anymore for the next several months. But in the spirit of Thanksgiving in the states (which probably means you won’t be reading this till Monday at the earliest), I’ll be grateful for sitting next to an impeccably polite economist reading and correcting a draft paper, which is taking every ounce of my self-discipline not to read over his shoulder (he’s doing it with paper and pencil, too; I have a student who uses a ReMarkable and she let me have a go on it today and I regret to inform you I will soon be spending money that should go on food or wine on one).