Award-winning reporter and author Thomas Schulz explores the questions of why we can now live to be 120 years old, how we can stay healthy, and what this means for social systems and our planet.
Tuesday, 12. March 2024, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
An unprecedented explosion of scientific progress is revolutionizing medicine. Cancer can be recognized by simple blood tests before the first symptoms appear. Gene therapies cure blindness. Obesity can be injected away. All these developments are already having a major impact on our life expectancy, especially when they help to make major common diseases manageable.
Top researchers agree being fit in your mid-90s is becoming the norm. And 120 years of life is within reach for many people. What is the vision of a long, good life that does not overburden social systems or the planet?
Admission is free. No pre-registration necessary. No seat reservation possible.
This event will be live-streamed and provided for replay.
Thomas Schulz is a reporter for the «Spiegel» editorial team. Previously, he reported for almost a decade as a correspondent for «Spiegel» from the USA: initially from New York from 2008, before moving to San Francisco in 2012 to set up the editorial office in Silicon Valley.
His international business bestseller “Was Google wirklich will” (“What Google Really Wants”) was published in 2015. His new book “Zukunftsmedizin – Wie das Silicon Valley Krankheiten besiegen und unser Leben verlängern will” (“Future medicine – How Silicon Valley wants to defeat diseases and extend our lives”) was published in May 2018.
Schulz studied political science in Frankfurt and communication science as a Fulbright scholar in the USA. He researched international economic policy as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Schulz has been honored with the Henri Nannen Prize, the Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism and Journalist of the Year, among others.