Who wants to live forever?
I do. I've been following a series of articles on LiveScience that talk about aging and disease and how we are learning to combat them. According to one article, the author beleives that all disease will be wiped out in 30 years; that our technology is growing so fast that we will come to a basic sub-cellular understanding of all ills and be able to treat them and prevent them. The chances are much higher that we will prevent all disease (and genetic defects) and much lower that we will be able to heal trauma, although everything will increase as our knowledge increases.
Here is an article that talks about one of the biologists working on the aging issue and how he thinks we will soon evolve:
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050411_aubrey_interview.html
This is the second article by a different biologist that said that within 20 years we will drastically increase our life span. The other article I read said only that we would double our lifespan in 20 years, this seems to go even beyond that.
Anyway, what do you guys think? Will we increase our lifespan? Should we? Do we want to? What would we do with all that extra time?
I believe it is great to expand our life if it proves to be possible. I don't think there's any sort of god or being that frowns upon life extension and wants us to "stay in our place." I do believe that we will vastly increase the human life span. 25 years from now sounds nice, but realistically I'm not holding my breath. Still, if I was able to take advantage of some sort of life extension, I would. What would I do with my extra time? Learn. Explore the Universe and try to understand it. How many lifetimes could we spend exploring what's out there? And people waste their silly little lives away down here searching for power and money and sex.
Well, okay, the sex I can understand. :)
Here is an article that talks about one of the biologists working on the aging issue and how he thinks we will soon evolve:
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050411_aubrey_interview.html
This is the second article by a different biologist that said that within 20 years we will drastically increase our life span. The other article I read said only that we would double our lifespan in 20 years, this seems to go even beyond that.
Anyway, what do you guys think? Will we increase our lifespan? Should we? Do we want to? What would we do with all that extra time?
I believe it is great to expand our life if it proves to be possible. I don't think there's any sort of god or being that frowns upon life extension and wants us to "stay in our place." I do believe that we will vastly increase the human life span. 25 years from now sounds nice, but realistically I'm not holding my breath. Still, if I was able to take advantage of some sort of life extension, I would. What would I do with my extra time? Learn. Explore the Universe and try to understand it. How many lifetimes could we spend exploring what's out there? And people waste their silly little lives away down here searching for power and money and sex.
Well, okay, the sex I can understand. :)