ABSTRACT
This article argues that the nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are facing a potential disaster: intergenerational conflicts between the large number of workers approaching retirement at an earlier age than ever before in history and the smaller number entering the labor market. These nations are confronted with the choice of whether to default on commitments to pensions and health care, to reduce benefits, or to increase the taxes borne by younger workers. The author argues that this new intergenerational conflict is the result of technophysio evolution, a synergism between technological and physiological improvements that has produced a form of human evolution that is biological but not genetic, rapid, culturally.
