Silver lining - An ageing society presents design opportunities for today's engineers

摘要

First the good news. We're all living longer. In fact, if you're reasonably healthy, the chances are that when you go to bed tonight your life expectancy will be five hours greater than it was the same time yesterday. What's more, it's now predicted that most of the babies born today in the developed world will live to be 1:00. Whoever's on the throne in 2109 will be getting through plenty of stamps.