“We added 5 billion humans to the planet since 1920, not because people were having more babies, but because we figured out all these new ways to keep people from dying. “Because doubling life expectancy happened slowly, the aggregate result of countless interventions, we don’t recognize it for the achievement it is,” Johnson writes. All of these resources chronicle a revolution in medicine and public health, set in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Johnson’s “Extra Life” project extends beyond his book and the PBS show, including a special issue of the NY Times Magazine in April devoted to the past and future of life expectancy, and an educational curriculum to teach this history, designed by the Pulitzer Center. The mission of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity is to explore the interplay between change and human character, innovation and the individual, and we’re truly excited to share his work with the campus community.” “Extra Life re-installs the pilots, milkmaids, mothers, statisticians, activists and so many others into the history of the greatest leap in humankind in the past 100 years - the doubling of our life expectancy. But what makes his books so compelling, I think, is that he tells the stories of the biggest changes of our time through people - foregrounding their ingenuity, resourcefulness, and very real sacrifices,” said Austin Bunn, associate professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts & Sciences and director of the Milstein Program. “Steven Johnson is an exceptional biographer of ideas: the ‘invention’ of oxygen, the origins of epidemiology, the nature of innovation itself. Because of COVID restrictions, the talk is only open to the Cornell community. His public talk with take place from 5-6 p.m. Johnson’s visit is part of the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity’s “Milstein Speaker Series,” and also sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences and Cornell’s Masters in Public Health program.
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