[stuartcr]

Now we will be retired longer than our careers? How will anyone save enough to live 'til they're 150yo?

[djf]

Don't know if I'd want to live that long.

Course I might say different if I was 149 yrs, 364 days old when you asked!

I know that there are darn few people in the world I'd wanna put up with for 150 years, and I ain't one of them!

[Banjoguy]

I could be over sixty, and very productive but no one will hire me as a professional. Youth rules in the workplace and youngsters run the human resource offices. They look at you and you can see the look on their faces as they obviously are thinking, "man, this dude is old". At one job interview, despite a long, documented range of experiences, I was treated with hostility, almost as if I were a moron.

...problem is, ageism is silent but rampant.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Now we will be retired longer than our careers?

Especially as birth-rates fall in Western Europe and the rst of the developed world, life extension becomes more and more important. The point of all this isn't to live like a retiree for an additional 50 years - it's to live a productive, energetic, youthful life for an additional 50 years.

Social Security and other age-based benefits programs already need to be adjusted to current reality - 67 is not that old. The age limit for government benefits will need to be constantly adjusted upward as the human lifespan increases.

Should be some amazing advances in human longevity this century, along with resultant religious, economic and social implications. Interesting time to be alive.