From the standpoint of the life expectancy chart, the fact that the computer revolution continues the upwards trend despite sharply diminishing returns is probably as significant.
The Industrial Revolution was doing the "low hanging fruit" of that. Still unbelievable significant, but the information age (which the medical revolutions are attached to) is doing some unbelievable lifting there.
If/when they make serious strides in addressing aging, that will probably be the third (or fourth, the chart doesn't show Hunt+Gather -> Cultivation) major economic revolution.
Keep in mind our life expectancy will probably drop without some biotech revolution. Climate change and demographic bombs are fueling dangerous wars, and we haven't even had to deal with really bad climate change impacts from heat and mass population movements/drought on the scale of billions.
The Industrial Revolution was doing the "low hanging fruit" of that. Still unbelievable significant, but the information age (which the medical revolutions are attached to) is doing some unbelievable lifting there.
If/when they make serious strides in addressing aging, that will probably be the third (or fourth, the chart doesn't show Hunt+Gather -> Cultivation) major economic revolution.
Keep in mind our life expectancy will probably drop without some biotech revolution. Climate change and demographic bombs are fueling dangerous wars, and we haven't even had to deal with really bad climate change impacts from heat and mass population movements/drought on the scale of billions.