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Index
Cover
Half-title Page
Dedication Page
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
The Frankenstein Syndrome
Social Pioneers
Everybodies
Our Proposition
Part One: HUMAN QUESTIONS
1 Human Progress
Creating Extraordinary Technology
Will machines take our jobs?
What qualifications will be needed to safeguard careers?
In which areas will humans outperform machines?
Enabling Longer Lives
How can we stay fit, healthy, active and engaged for longer?
What will be the impact of longevity on families and communities?
How can everyone remain economically productive and work for longer?
How can health systems be created that focus on healthy aging?
How can constructive intergenerational relationships be forged?
Human Solutions to Human Questions
2 Human Flourishing
The Redesign of Life
Human flourishing
Narrate: navigating my life story
Explore: learning and transforming
Relate: connecting deeply
Part Two: HUMAN INGENUITY
3 Narrate: navigating my life story
Reimagining Age
What is it to be ‘old’?
Changing your view of your age
Changing your view of the age of others
Reimagining Time
Future time
The magic of compound interest
In the present
The tunnel of work
Reimagining a Job
Engel’s pause
Tom’s dilemma
The future of jobs
A Fluid Career
More years
Increased leisure time
More alternative work
A broader sense of work
What Makes for a Good Life?
Your Narrative
Sketch possible selves
Examine your underlying assumptions
Consider time allocation
4 Explore: learning and transitioning
Exploring and Discovering
The value of options
Living to Learn
Learning at any age
How to learn as an adult
Learning to Navigate Transitions
Investigating
Committing
Shifting networks
Exploring New Transitions
A midlife transition: staying productive
A later life transition: positive aging
Your Exploring
Make transitions work for you
Ensure every stage is a learning opportunity
Do I have a place to learn?
5 Relate: connecting deeply
Families
Marrying later
Choosing fewer children, inheriting more older relatives
Working Families
Building Interdependence
Facing up to choices
A shared narrative
Who looks after the children?
A secure base and joint commitments
Generations
Generational equity: are the young worse off than the old?
Generational labels: are the generations really different?
Are generational labels useful?
Forging intergenerational empathy
Communities
Divided communities
Expanding community time
Community empathy: stepping behind the ‘veil of ignorance’
Your Relating
Test your plan for relationships
Prioritise your community
Part Three: HUMAN SOCIETY
6 The Corporate Agenda
Enable Multistage Lives
Create multiple points of entry
Refashion retirement
Support healthy and happy families and relationships
The financial penalty of raising a family
Support fathers
Support carers
Create a culture of flexibility
Champion Learning
Ditch Ageism
Maintaining productivity in older workers
Why Should Firms Bother?
The importance of an agile workforce
The benefits of a new corporate ‘pension’
Matching consumers and employees
The scarcity of workers
7 The Education Agenda
Focus on human skills
Beyond STEM
The Crucial Rise of Adult Education
Adult focused
Flexible and navigable
Age agnostic
Less reliant on degrees
Caveat emptor
Build stackable and portable credentials
Create an inclusive learning system
Make best use of technology
A New Education System
8 The Government Agenda
Avoiding Bad Outcomes
Insure the person – not the job
Avoiding inequality
Protect against ‘bad jobs’
Protect against bad financial outcomes
Reduce bad health outcomes
Promoting Good Outcomes
Help people navigate towards future skills
Promote healthy aging
Create a longevity economy
An Inclusive Agenda
Thinking beyond GDP
Rewiring the political system
Postscript: Moving Forward
Notes
Image Credits
Index
A Note on the Authors
Practical Guide
Copyright Page
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