Instead of living fast and dying younger, Mr Last believes humans will live slow and die old. “Global society at the moment is a complete mess，” he told MailOnline. “But in crisis there is opportunity, and in apocalypse (启示) there can be transformation. So

　　I think the next system humanity creates will be far more sophisticated, fair, and abundant than our current civilization.”

　　“I think our next system will be as different from the modern world, as our contemporary world is from the medieval (中世纪的) world. The biological clock isn’t going to be around forever，” he added, and said that people could pause it for some time using future technology.

　　The change is already happening. Today, the average age at which a woman in Britain has her first baby has been rising steadily stands at 29.8. In the US, just one percent of first children were born to women over the age of 35 in 1970. By 2017, that figure rose to 15 percent.

　　“As countries become socioeconomically advanced, more and more people, especially women have the option to engage in cultural reproduction，” Mr Last added. And as well as having more child­free years to enjoy leisure time, he believes artificial intelligence will make up the need for low­skill jobs. We may also spend a large amount of time living in virtual reality. “I’m not quite sure most people have really absorbed the implications of this possibility，” Mr Last said.

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