The Biological Age has been here for some time…

Nick Ayton
13 min readAug 30, 2024
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Which Age or doesn’t it matter?

My position is this: the Biological Age is here!

Look, I hear people saying we’re in the 4th or 5th Industrial Revolution but think about it, what does this actually mean? That we’re in the Digital Age — what? Computers have been digital since the invention of the transistor in 1947? Why all of a sudden Digital now? Nonsense. Or the Quantum Age — yes in time maybe. Or the Nuclear Age since Oppenheimer did his thing in 1946. That Data is the new Oil — no it is not! Data is like excrement, a bi-product of the ‘distraction’...

The only evidence — Industrial Revolution set the trajectory around steam power, the transistor created the Computing Age around electricity. Since 1947 there has been nothing of note. Other than the marketing efforts of ‘big tech’ to embellish apparent breakthroughs to get you to buy small incremental improvements, gadgets and services (TV streaming).

Stay with me as I vent a little to make a point.

You think not! What has this to do with Biology?

The stark reality is our technological advancement has been poor, held back even. The breakthroughs heralded as progress- are unimportant. It is a ‘false narrative’ — faster chips that let…

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Nick Ayton

Nick Ayton is a Polymath, Technologist, Filmmaker, Writer, Speaker