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A wakeup call that shows us how to live our best and longest lives through the power of AI
Key FeaturesDiscover how the latest cutting-edge developments in health and AI are helping us live longer, healthier, and better livesPersonalize your health, wealth and well-being using technology best suited to help you plan and build up your assets for a multi-stage lifeUnderstand how we can live our best lives in a post-COVID-19 world and equip ourselves for the next pandemic using technologyBook DescriptionLive Longer with AI examines how the latest cutting-edge developments are helping us to live longer, healthier and better too. It compels us to stop thinking that health is about treating disease and start regarding it as our greatest personal and societal asset to protect.
The book discusses the impact that AI has on understanding the cellular basis of aging and how our genes are influenced by our environment – with the pandemic highlighting the interconnectedness of human and planetary health.
Author Tina Woods, founder and CEO of Collider Health and Collider Science, and the co-founder of Longevity International, has curated a panel of deeply insightful interviews with some of today’s brightest and most innovative thought leaders at the crossroads of health, technology and society.
Read what leading experts in health and technology are saying about the book:
“This is a handbook for the revolution!”
—Sir Muir Gray, Director, Optimal Ageing
“You can live longer and be happier if you make some changes – that is the theme of this book. Well-written and compelling.”
—Ben Page, CEO, Ipsos Mori
“Tina’s book is a must-read for those who want to discover the future of health.”
—José Luis Cordeiro, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Director, The Millennium Project; Vice Chair, Humanity Plus; Co-Author of The Death of Death
Melissa Ream is a leading health and care strategist in the UK, leveraging user-driven design and artificial intelligence to design systems and support people to live healthier, longer lives.
What you will learnDiscover how AI is changing the way we understand the wider determinants of health, how the environment influences our genes and why the solutions for living longer are linked to living greenerInform your perspective on how technology can deal with the health emergency in front of us – by minimizing health and wealth inequalitiesLearn why our “life data” is so important and how sharing it will help us develop aging “bio-markers”, enabling us to predict and manage dementia and other chronic diseases of agingFind out how scientists and doctors are using AI to find a vaccine for Covid-19, make us more resilient to future pandemic threats and pre-empt the next outbreakWho this book is forProfessionals and general readers with an interest in learning how technology can and is being used to change our approach to aging and help us live longer and healthier lives. No prior knowledge of or experience with artificial intelligence is required.
Table of ContentsIntroductionWho We Are – And What Drives UsNature Versus Nurture and the ExposomeMoving Sickcare to Well-being, Through PreventionBuilding Up Assets for the 100-Year LifeConclusionFrom the Publisher
How does Live Longer with AI differ from other aging and longevity books?
There has been an explosion of books on aging and longevity in the last year; many are excellent, but the vast majority are focused narrowly on the latest science, or the social implications or the practical ‘how tos’ of aging well. This book aims to combine all strands of the debate, synthesizing viewpoints from across the spectrum to mobilize ourselves as citizens in changing how we think about health, engage in our health, and how we can change health from its focus on sick-care to wellbeing across the life course from conception to death. The impact that AI has on understanding the cellular basis of aging and how our genes are influenced by our environment – with the pandemic highlighting the interconnectedness of human and planetary health. You will explore how the pandemic has exposed the fracture lines of society and why we need to act fast to prevent another type of epidemic becoming an even greater crisis: driven not by viruses but by lifestyle-driven chronic diseases.
How significant is the role of AI in the preparation of a vaccine for Coronavirus disease?
The scale and pace of scientific endeavors to develop a vaccine for Coronavirus is unprecedented. There are already 25 different candidate vaccines in clinical trials around the world according to the World Health Organization (WHO) as of July 2020. Oxford University and AstraZeneca have recently announced promising early-stage results, claiming a vaccine might even be available later this year.
AI is playing two important roles in the quest for an effective vaccine: firstly, by analyzing and understanding viral protein structures to guide the elements of a vaccine; and secondly, by helping researchers find relevant research papers that are being published at an accelerating rate. Around the world, organizations have created AI tools, shared data sets and research results, and then shared them freely with the global scientific community to help them find the papers relevant to their specific research, to review the breadth of recent findings, and uncover insights.
What are the key takeaways from your book?
This book is about personal discovery and societal change seen through the eyes of a number of experts. The book sets out to describe the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity we have with the Coronavirus pandemic, a bigger disruptor than even technology itself, to change how we view health – and the steps we need to take to protect it as our greatest asset. The book describes how we can harness data to understand why Coronavirus has most impacted people in poor health and in deprived areas, how to equip ourselves better and build resilience in time for the next pandemic, and live our best lives in a post-Coronavirus world.
ASIN : B089QPJW63
Publisher : Packt Publishing; 1st edition (September 30, 2020)
Publication date : September 30, 2020
Language : English
File size : 817 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 602 pages