The future is here. In a new study by the Danish Aging Research Center an astonishing report has shown it’s crowning head, babies born in most developed western countries may live to be a hundred.

“Very long lives are not the distant privilege of remote future generations – very long lives are the probable destiny of most people alive now in developed countries,” Kaare Christensen of the Danish Ageing Research Centre wrote in a study in the Lancet medical journal.

It’s rare enough right now to turn on the news and occasionally see a person celebrating their one hundredth birthday, being asked questions like what their secret to living so long is and what they think of all the advances we’ve made as society, but in the not to distant future most people will fall into the same catagory.

With increasing medical advancements and awarness of health risks it’s really not that far fetched. In the twentyth century alone we’ve seen an increase in life expectancy of up to thirty years.

According to their analysis of data from more than 30 developed countries, death rates are dropping among people over 80. And three quarters of babies born in these nations over the past decade can expect to live to 75. The researchers also hypothesized that we can live longer by extending our working lives and shortening our work weeks—say, by making a four-day workweek the norm.

It will however increase the need for longer medical treatment and increase this cost. But if people work longer hopefully more money will be put towards theses needs and may end up working out in everyone’s benefit. With such a long life the human race is sure to see even more advances in all fields making a better world for us all.

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