--- title: Davos Longevity Poll: What to Do if You Could Live to 150? description: Medical advances in recent decades have dramatically increased the lifespans of people around the world canonical: https://time.com/4176930/davos-2016-longevity/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-14T16:51:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:40:44.611Z article:section: Health og:title: What Would You Do if You Could Live to 150? og:description: The possibility isn't far off og:url: https://time.com/4176930/davos-2016-longevity/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f202433d5169344/6988792b524fc043bbdf64b8/old-age-150-years-life.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5760 og:image:height: 3240 og:image:alt: 522796255 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Would You Do if You Could Live to 150? twitter:description: The possibility isn't far off twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f202433d5169344/6988792b524fc043bbdf64b8/old-age-150-years-life.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # What Would You Do if You Could Live to 150? > Sponsored content. 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Here's why you should care._  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 14, 2016 4:51 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 14, 2016 4:51 PM UTC Medical advances in recent decades have dramatically [increased the lifespans](http://time.com/3706775/in-the-latest-issue-23/) of people around the world ,and future advances like gene editing show promise of continuing to raise life expectancies. [Extending human life expectancy](http://time.com/3637584/global-life-expectancy/) represents a key advance for human societies, but it also presents a whole slew of questions. Policymakers have been forced to rethink the structure of many key societal institutions and everyday people to consider what they would do if they could live an extra 50 years. In this poll ahead of [the World Economic Forum in Davos](http://time.com/4175744/world-economic-forum-davos-2016/), TIME asks key questions about living to 150 would change the way you live your life. The results of the poll will be presented during a panel hosted by TIME Editor Nancy Gibbs in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 20. ## Transcript I'm Rana Foroohar, assistant managing editor and columnist at Time. Every year, mid- January, the world's most powerful people get together in [ UNKNOWN ] Switzerland, a remote sky resort to discuss the global economy. Here's what you need to know. [ UNKNOWN ] is a gathering of business. [ MUSIC ] [ INAUDIBLE ] Leaders. It started as a management conference that was founded by Klaus Schwab, a European business professor who now heads the World Economic Forum. The World Economic Forum runs their yearly conference in Davos. And it draws some of the most powerful people in. In the world. Presidents, Prime Ministers, world business leaders, CEOs, heads of charities, and non- profit groups from all over. It's one of the most central meeting points for the global economy each year, and these leaders gather to discuss what's gonna be on the agenda for 2016. [ MUSIC ] 16. The theme of Davos this year is mastering the fourth industrial revolution. What does that mean? Technology is reshaping the way global economies work, the way jobs are created. People are going to want to understand how technology is going to affect their business. How it's gonna affect global growth, the role that it may play in both causing and resolving political conflict. So, mastering the fourth industrial revolution will be the umbrella theme for a number of conversations, economic and political. 2016 is gonna be an interesting year to watch the conversation in Davos, in part because global markets have been so jittery. The Chinese markets have been crashing. That's caused turbulence in the world economy. And policy makers, and politicians and business leaders alike are gonna wanna understand what's going on in the Chinese economy. Can policy makers solve the debt crisis there? China in the emerging markets now make up 40 % of global growth. So the conversation about what's happening there is gonna be very important. Likewise, people are gonna wanna know what's happening in US economy. The US has been in recovery now for several years, but it's been a wageless recovery. That's a problem in an economy that is 70 % consumer spending. There's a sense that the US can no longer pull the global economy along with it, and that Europe is still flat- lining, or possibly even headed back into recession. Will the global economy continue to grow? Or will it go into recession in the next year or two? I think that's going to be a big question on the agenda in Davos. 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