Extra Life

Zusatztext Praise for Extra Life : Fascinating. The Wall Street Journal Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives. President Barack Obama (on Twitter) Fascinating story. Fareed Zakaria on Fareed Zakaria GPS To call this timely would be something of an understatement. The Toronto Star Extra Life could not be timelier. Science Magazine [Extra Life] gives important insight into the history of a few specific leaps and bounds we've made as a species to outwit disease, famine and even the safety threats posed by our own inventions. Discover Magazine Johnson is a fine storyteller. . . . Extra Life is an important book. Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book Review A surprising look at why humans are living longer. . . Entertaining, wide-ranging, andin light of COVID-19particularly timely. Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including Where Good Ideas Come From , How We Got to Now , and The Ghost Map . He's the host and cocreator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got to Now , the host of the podcast The TED Interview, and the author of the newsletter Adjacent Possible . He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Marin County, California, with his wife and three sons. Klappentext The surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of modern life-the medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of living-have given us each about twenty thousand extra days on average. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than our increased longevity. This book is Steven Johnson's attempt to understand where that progress came from. How many of those extra twenty thousand days came from vaccines, or the decrease in famines, or seatbelts? What are the forces that now keep us alive longer? Behind each breakthrough lies an inspiring story of cooperative innovation, of brilliant thinkers bolstered by strong systems of public support and collaborative networks. But it is not enough simply to remind ourselves that progress is possible. How do we avoid decreases in life expectancy as our public health systems face unprecedented challenges? What current technologies or interventions that could reduce the impact of future crises are we somehow ignoring? A study in how meaningful change happens in society, Unexpected Life is an ode to the enduring power of common goals and public resources. The most fundamental progress we have experienced over the past few centuries has not come from big corporations or start-ups. It has come, instead, from activists struggling for reform; from university-based and publicly funded scientists sharing their findings open-source-style; and from nonprofit agencies spreading new innovations around the world. Leseprobe 1 The Long Ceiling Measuring Life Expectancy In the spring of 1967, a sociology graduate student from Harvard named Nancy Howell took a flight from Boston to Rome with her new husband, an anthropologist named Richard Lee. After a few days in Italy, they flew to Nairobi, where they met an academic friend of Richard's and visited the Hadza tribes living in the region. From there they flew to Johannesburg,where they loaded up on supplies and socialized with a few more researchers in the area. They purchased a truck and drove north to the newly independent country of Botswana, picking up supplies in its new capital, then traveling northwest toward th...

Praise for Extra Life:

“Fascinating.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives.” —President Barack Obama (on Twitter)

“Fascinating story.” —Fareed Zakaria on Fareed Zakaria GPS

“To call this timely would be something of an understatement.” —The Toronto Star 
 
“Extra Life could not be timelier.” —Science Magazine

“[Extra Life] gives important insight into the history of a few specific leaps and bounds we’ve made as a species to outwit disease, famine and even the safety threats posed by our own inventions.” —Discover Magazine

“Johnson is a fine storyteller. . . . Extra Life is an important book.” —Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book Review

“A surprising look at why humans are living longer. . . Entertaining, wide-ranging, and—in light of COVID-19—particularly timely.” —Kirkus Reviews

Autorentext
Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, How We Got to Now, and The Ghost Map. He’s the host and cocreator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got to Now, the host of the podcast The TED Interview, and the author of the newsletter Adjacent Possible. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Marin County, California, with his wife and three sons.

Klappentext
The surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From

As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of modern life-the medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of living-have given us each about twenty thousand extra days on average. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than our increased longevity.

This book is Steven Johnson's attempt to understand where that progress came from. How many of those extra twenty thousand days came from vaccines, or the decrease in famines, or seatbelts? What are the forces that now keep us alive longer? Behind each breakthrough lies an inspiring story of cooperative innovation, of brilliant thinkers bolstered by strong systems of public support and collaborative networks.

But it is not enough simply to remind ourselves that progress is possible. How do we avoid decreases in life expectancy as our public health systems face unprecedented challenges? What current technologies or interventions that could reduce the impact of future crises are we somehow ignoring?

A study in how meaningful change happens in society, Unexpected Life is an ode to the enduring power of common goals and public resources. The most fundamental progress we have experienced over the past few centuries has not come from big corporations or start-ups. It has come, instead, from activists struggling for reform; from university-based and publicly funded scientists sharing their findings open-source-style; and from nonprofit agencies spreading new innovations around the world.

Zusammenfassung
“Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives.” —President Barack Obama (on Twitter)

“An important book.” —Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book Review

The surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From

In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over forty years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than eighty years. As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century. There are few measures of human progress m…

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