TED: What will be the next big scientific breakthrough?

In our busy lives, with work, home, families, we sometimes forget to pause and reflect on the age we are living in. This blog gives but a glimpse of the revolutionary science happening all around us and its implications for our future. Eric Haseltine, futurist, author, innovator, gave a brief but meaningful TED Talk focusing on just two concepts, super-resolution microscopy and Eric Betzig:

On left: what we used to see with our best microscopes. On right: what we can see now!
On left: what we used to see with our best microscopes. On right: what we can see now!

and work to combat aging by life extension pioneer Aubrey de Grey and how just those two scientists are among many who lead humanity into a better future.

When the aging disease is reversed, our biological age will depart from our chronological age.
When the aging disease is reversed, our biological age will depart from our chronological age.

Watch the TED Talk here.

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