Free Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging by Suzanne Somers

I’m very much looking forward to living and participating in life. But that’s not something that is just reserved for me. Everyone has a lot to contribute and can continue to contribute, particularly as we unlock human potential with these new technologies.
    SS: But if we extend life indefinitely, what are we going to do with all these people?
    RK: That’s not a problem at all. A hundred years ago there were predictions that with the population explosion we’d run out of food, and as you can see we’ve more than kept up with that. In fact, I have graphs that show continual progress in human wealth, health, education,and many other different resources. We have ten thousand times more energy than we need for the entire population just from sunlight. Now, for sure, we can’t plug our refrigerators into the sun without converting it into electricity, but that is exactly what nanotechnology will provide. In fact, new nanotechnology-based solar panels are providing much more cost-effective solar energy and are on an exponential rise. It’s been doubling every two years and has been for the last twenty-five years, and we’re only eight doublings away from meeting 100 percent of our energy needs.
    SS: You explain “exponential” in your law of accelerating returns, meaning, as I understand it in its simplest form, starting slow, then growing faster and faster. The rate of change is accelerating, the best example being with knowledge and technology. We hardly notice the growth at first, for example, as in cancer research so far, and then suddenly it seems to explode, particularly as I see it, outside the standard-of-care box.
    RK: I wrote an energy plan for the National Academy of Engineering articulating that view. Well, within twenty years we can meet all our energy needs many times over with sunlight. We have an enormous amount of water even though right now most of it is salinized or polluted, but if we have cheap energy, we know how to clean it up. There are food technologies that are emerging.
    SS: What do you mean?
    RK: There will be vertical agriculture where we can grow high-quality plants in air-controlled buildings that will be very nutritious and low cost. We will have in vitro cloned meats where we can feed millions of pounds of meat from one animal basically by cloning the muscle tissue with no animal suffering. PETA is a strong supporter of this idea. There are many ideas like this that we are exploring at Singularity University. One of the projects is pursuing this new field of three-dimensional printing to print out models that can be put together into very-low-cost, high-quality housing. It goes further with nanotechnology; one of its promises is to have a desktop device where you can print out any physical object from an information file.
    SS: You mean like I could print out a new blouse?
    RK: Right, or a solar panel or a module to build housing. We’ll have all the physical things we need. We can meet the material needs of a growing population. People say to me, “But there’s going to be a ‘have, have-not’ divide.” I respond with, Look at cell phones. Fivebillion of our six billion people have them. A kid in Africa with a smartphone has access to more information today than the president of the United States did fifteen years ago.
    SS: Powerful stuff.
    RK: Yes, and ultimately these technologies become very inexpensive and very powerful, so even if the population expands somewhat, the power of these technologies doubles every year. Even with the size of the biological population, and even if we substantially reduce the death rate, we’d still have a doubling time of advances of like fifteen years.
    SS: Ahh, there it is again, “exponential.”
    RK: Right, but the rate of growth and the power of technology’s abilities to meet the needs of the population are doubling much faster. We will see advances in the next ten years or so that would have taken over two hundred years before. In fact,