Futurist David Wood's meme contrasts 2026 vs 2056: aging becomes unthinkable
Chris_Armstrong · x · 2026-10-27
Futurist David Wood (dw2) shares "four glimpses of a future worth wanting" as part of his #xhopememeprize thread. The featured meme contrasts 2026 — a doctor saying "it's just old age, nothing more we can do" — with 2056, where a 93-year-old grandmother shows her granddaughter a history book in which frailty, untreatable diseases, and early death are things of the past.
The core message: limitations we currently resign ourselves to, like aging, can soon be challenged and vanquished.
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