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A Plan For Humanity

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I don’t go to pools. I don’t drink margaritas. Somehow here I am, sitting at a pool with a margarita in hand, editing my 82nd draft of a plan for the future of the human race. My girlfriend is worried people might think I’m crazy. “Baby, ” she posits, “most people just want to make it through the day. Who really gives a shit whether humans survive in 200 years?” She’s kinda right. Fortunately, tequila takes the edge off. For the past decade, I’ve been obsessed with solving a problem that very few people seem

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We need future literacy to survive.

I don't go to pools. I don't drink margaritas.

Somehow here I am, sitting at a pool with a margarita in hand, editing my 82nd draft of a plan for the future of the human race.

My girlfriend is worried people might think I'm crazy.

“Baby,” she posits, “most people just want to make it through the day. Who really gives a shit whether humans survive in 200 years?”

She's kinda right. Fortunately, tequila takes the edge off.

For the past decade, I've been obsessed with solving a problem that very few people seem to care about. And that, in my estimation, is the biggest problem of all. But who I am to say?

Perhaps humans are destined to fail. Like so many other species before us, perhaps we're simply meant to approach a natural, unavoidable end. Maybe we deserve it.

But what if….what if we adjusted a few things, turned a few knobs, and set off in new directions. What if we could not only survive, but create an existence more exquisite than we can even imagine?! What if.

These are the ideas that consume me. I can't stop thinking about them. Dreaming about them. I burn inside with an ambition that feels out of place in the early 21st century.

We plan everything else in life: when we wake up, when we start work, meetings, social events, marriage, kids, career progression, financial goals, vacations, purchases, war, retirement, death — everything.

Why don't we have a plan for our collective survival?

If the human race were a stock on an...


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Founder @KernelCo @OSFund & Braintree Bryan Johnson is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is founder and CEO of Kernel, a company developing advanced neural interfaces, and OS Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage science and technology companies. He was also founder, chairman and CEO of Braintree, a company which specializes in mobile and web payment systems for ecommerce companies. Braintree was acquired by eBay for $800 million in 2013. Johnson lives in Los Angeles.

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