• Question: where will the world be in 100 years

    Asked by anon-199024 to Srinath, Luisa on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Srinath Kasturirangan

      Srinath Kasturirangan answered on 7 Mar 2019:


      From the perspective of a scientist who develops medicines – we would have found a cure for a number of different diseases that we have today. We would have eradicated diseases like malaria, dengue, typhoid, tetanus like how we have eradicated polio and small pox in the last 100 years. People will live longer, living up to 90 and 100 will become common place. But with this comes a new set of problems – our bodies are not really designed to live that long, so there will be a LOT of old people living with diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons and other diseases related to the brain and that is where a majority of the research focus will be (as it is now on curing diabetes and cancer).

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