Christine Peterson – Top 10 Longevity Strategies Today that You may Not Already Know
We are incredibly honored to welcome Christine Peterson to speak at Future Day 2026, a woman who has spent decades looking over the horizon to see the future before it arrives. Christine is the Co-founder and Senior Fellow of the Foresight Institute and is famously credited with coining the term ‘Open Source‘ – a concept that fundamentally changed how the world builds technology.
Today, she is applying that same forward-thinking lens to the most personal technology of all: our own biology. In an era where ‘Longevity Escape Velocity’ is becoming a real goal, Christine is here to show us that life-extension isn’t just for the ultra-wealthy. Please join me in welcoming Christine Peterson for her ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ tour: ‘Top 10 Longevity Strategies Today that You may Not Already Know.’
Synopsis
A choose-your-own adventure tour
Longevity research is making progress! But how do we stay alive long enough to reach Longevity Escape Velocity? We’ll explore a few less-discussed strategies accessible to non-billionaires.
Bio
Christine Peterson is Co-founder and former President of Foresight Institute. She lectures and writes about nanotechnology, AI, and longevity. She is co-author of Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution (Morrow, also free online) and Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work (knOwhere Press, also free online). She advises the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Global Healthspan Policy Institute, National Space Society, startup Ligandal, and the Voice & Exit conference. She coined the term ‘open source software.’ She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from MIT.
