Continuation Class: Longevity, Augmentation and the Cost of Continued Life

The twenty-first century may not defeat death. It may make death renewable.

As artificial intelligence, private medicine, automated care and longevity science begin to change the limits of human life, extra time may first arrive as a product: monitored, priced, upgraded, rationed and denied. The rich will not need immortality. They will need enough delay to reach the next treatment.

The Continuation Class is a sharp speculative nonfiction book about AI augmentation, ageing, class, automation and continuation. It asks what happens when health, memory, mobility, fertility and survival itself become services - and when time becomes the final luxury good.