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According to internationally-acclaimed sociologist/futurist Dr. Michael G. Zey,  we are only at the beginning of what he labels the “Superlongevity Revolution”. Within the next several decades, he says, we will be living to 125, 150, 300, and may in fact be knocking on the door of immortality.

On Saturday, July 19, 2003, Dr. Michael G. Zey will deliver his speech, “From Longevity To Superlongevity: How the Increasing Lifespan Will Benefit Our Society And Economy” at the World Future Society conference held in San Francisco’s Hyatt Regency Hotel
Dr. Zey will first describe the scientific innovations that will extend life into the 100s, such as biotechnology, bionics, nanotechnology, tissue regeneration, stem cell research, and cloning. He claims that such breakthroughs will also enable us to remain physically “young”, healthy, and productive throughout our very long lives.

Michael Zey, author of The Future Factor (McGraw Hill) and Seizing the Future (Simon and Schuster), rejects the commonly accepted belief that this longer-living society will be plagued by overpopulation, declining economic productivity, and an overburdened health care delivery system. Rather, Zey claims, individuals will contribute their skills to social and economic growth for a much longer period of their lives. This longer-living population’s accumulated wisdom and skills will empower them to contribute to the common good and help usher in a new age of prosperity. In his talk, Dr. Zey specifically focuses on how Superlongevity will impact work, marriage, career, retirement, and leisure patterns.

TO INTERVIEW DR. ZEY ON THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE, CONTACT HIM AT 973-538-8192, OR E-MAIL HIM THROUGH WWW.ZEY.COM. He will also be available for interviews at the conference from July 17 through July 21. His cell # is 973-879-4776.

About Michael G. Zey

Dr. Michael G Zey is the author of “The Future Factor: The Five Forces Transforming Our Lives and Shaping Human Destiny” (McGraw-Hill), and Seizing the Future: The Dawn of the Macroindustrial Era (Simon and Schuster, hardcover; Transaction Publishers/ Paperback), as well as several other books.

Dr. Michael Zey’s controversial and original views on social and techno-trends have appeared in the LA Times, Worth, Entrepreneur, La Liberation (Paris), Newsweek (Japan), ABCnews.com, and XMSatellite’’s USAToday/ Newstalk station, NJ Business,  as well as on WABC’s “Batchelor and Alexander Show”.

Dr. Michael G. Zey, whom Booklist claims “could be the next Alvin Toffler”, consults to corporations and government agencies on future planning, speaks regularly about the future on the international lecture circuit, and has appeared on The Wall Street Journal Report, CNBC, CNN, and The Turning Point, and in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Internet World, Windows, and La Monde. He recently has appeared on Radio Free Europe, “The Morning Edition” (KVON -San Francisco), CNNfn, the popular “Mike Murphy Show” on KCMO-AM, the nationally-syndicated “Laura Lee Show”, and “The John Jackson Show” on WMAY, Chicago, and  Radio Business Network's nationally broadcast Jesse Berst Show. During and after the Columbia shuttle disaster, Zey was interviewed about the space program and NASA’s future by the Christian Science Monitor, the Philadelphia Inquirer, radio stations in the UK and Ireland, and was invited to comment on WOR in New York. and Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Conversations with Tom Clark”. I’ve also been invited to air my views on future trends on FoxNews, PBS’s Nightly Business Report, and ABC’s 20/20.

He serves as Executive Director of the Expansionary Institute (www.zey.com) and is a Full Professor at Montclair State University, NJ.
(Source: Expansionary News Service, Morristown, NJ.)