This percentage will probably hold true even in the future, when we will have about 700,000 hours to live. Besides travelling around the world, playing tennis, etc., intellecutal and cultural activities should be cultivated as well, beginning early in life. The goal always was to develop lifelong lasting interests of very different kinds in young students. It might be easier to follow and realise the motto of the life plan if we consider that we not only have twice or three times as many years as our ancestors, but that we have twice or three times as many good years . Our nutrition is more assured and better than ever before.
Infectious diseases are more under control than previously.
We work half as long as our ancestors and generally under better conditions. Economically, with some exceptions, we can afford many more things. Information of all kinds, obtained through numerous television and radio channels, an overabundance of print media, museums, libraries, concert halls, and unversities all over the world, is available to many of us as never before. Dozens of generations before us have striven for a long life, and a long good life. We have it.