The World as You’ll Know It: The Great Rebuild

By Aventine Research Institute

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Human beings are living longer than ever. Thanks to advances like vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurized milk and clean water, we’ve added more than 30 years to the average lifespan over the last 120 years. That’s more than was added in the previous 10,000 years combined. More recently, enormous progress has been made in our treatment of deadly conditions like heart disease and cancer, with mortality rates for each dropping by double digits. Now science is tackling a new challenge: Can we cure aging itself? In pursuit of this holy grail, longevity research has gone from a sleepy backwater to a multi billion dollar field, populated — yes — by plenty of hucksters, but also by Nobel laureates. The goal is to find out what causes us to age and what we can do to slow it down, or maybe even reverse it altogether. Could tweaking the right molecule buy us 20 more years, or are we maxed out? Can older brains be re-wired to function like younger brains? Do any so-called biohacks actually work?  These are some of the questions we are tackling in this season of The World as You’ll Know It: The Future of Aging. With leading scientists in the fields of biology, neuroscience and medicine, we’ll look at the cutting-edge of aging research and what living longer could mean for all of us.

Episode Date
The Billion Dollar Bet: Will Humans Live to 150?
May 20, 2025
Introducing: The Future of Aging
May 19, 2025
Can We Pull Carbon Out of the Air?
Aug 13, 2024
Has the Moment for Hydrogen Finally Arrived?
Aug 06, 2024
Keeping Cool Without Warming the Planet
Jul 30, 2024
Is the U.S. Ready for a New Nuclear Age?
Jul 23, 2024
The Great American Road Trip, Reimagined
Jul 16, 2024
Climate Change and the Surprising Success of Solar Power
Jul 09, 2024
Introducing: The Great Rebuild
Jun 25, 2024
The Race to Control AI
Aug 29, 2023
When Bots Become Our Friends
Aug 22, 2023
AI Took My Career!
Aug 15, 2023
How AI Will Turbocharge Misinformation
Aug 08, 2023
Can AI Make You Laugh?
May 16, 2023
What Happens When AI Takes The Wheel?
May 09, 2023
Watson Part 2: How IBM’s Big Bet Failed
May 02, 2023
Watson Part 1: And the winner is…Watson!
Apr 25, 2023
Humans vs. Machines with Gary Marcus
Mar 07, 2023
05: The Future of Psychedelics in Healthcare
Sep 13, 2022
04: Outsmarting Chronic Pain
Sep 06, 2022
03: Technology and Mental Health Care
Aug 30, 2022
02: Solving the Mysteries of Alzheimer’s
Aug 23, 2022
01: Unlocking The Brain: How Computers Can Read Our Thoughts
Aug 16, 2022
Season Three: The Future of the Brain with Judith Warner
Aug 16, 2022
06: How Governments Can Shape Technology
Sep 28, 2021
05: The Likelihood and Risks of Superintelligent Machines
Sep 21, 2021
04: Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Life
Sep 14, 2021
03: How Business Models Have Shaped Big Tech
Sep 07, 2021
02: Our Brains and Technology
Aug 31, 2021
01: The Future of Social Media
Aug 24, 2021
Season Two: The Future of Technology with Kurt Andersen
Aug 23, 2021
05: The Future of Cities
Oct 29, 2020
04: The Future of Higher Education
Oct 22, 2020
03: The Future of Economic Policy
Oct 15, 2020
02: The Future of Work
Oct 08, 2020
01: The Future of Climate Change
Oct 01, 2020
Introducing: The World As You'll Know It
Sep 16, 2020