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Live Longer with AI

You're reading from   Live Longer with AI How artificial intelligence is helping us extend our healthspan and live better too

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838646158
Length 602 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tina Woods Tina Woods
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Health as our greatest asset for societal progress

The market economy remains one of our most impressive inventions. But the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed, in horrific detail, how our most vulnerable and those in poorest health have suffered the most; current structures are not fit for purpose to solve the challenges of now and tomorrow.

Many would argue that, certainly in the West, a new form of socially responsible, inclusive capitalism is needed, to harness technology for good uses in the "new normal" world ahead. The World Economic Forum is calling this "stakeholder capitalism" in its Global Reset initiative, to set the world on the right path.

Arguably, it is our young people who will suffer the most from the pandemic in the long term. Their mental health has suffered more than older populations, and I only have to look to my three sons to see that they see the future with less hope and optimism than I did at their age.

Heartening to see, however...

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