Since 2001, I’ve worked with young active-duty servicemembers in the military, trying to get them to save more for retirement. I can attest, the majority really don’t think much about retirement. How can we blame them; it seems so far off from now. In fact, according to research, two out of five don’t think about it at all.

Hal Hershfield, a professor UCLA’s Anderson School of Management is using age progression algorithms that basically mimics the processes of aging to see if Americans might save more if they literally faced the future. (See age progression of actress Angelina Jolie above.)

According to Hershfield, there is a real, positive impact in helping people to save more for their future. He stated, “In one of the studies we found people who were exposed to images of future selves allocated about twice as much money to a hypothetical saving account.” Hershfield said, “It allows people to say okay there is this future version of me and that person is going to benefit or suffer from the choices that I make today.”

Want to learn more, check out this link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/back-to-the-future-technology-helps-adults-save-for-retirement/