07-22-2010, 07:49 PM
(07-22-2010, 07:27 PM)--Pete Wrote: I've long suspected that our first immortals are already alive. I think there will come a time when medical technology will just stay ahead of aging, and the people living in that time will get the cures, treatments, processes, they need to keep them alive. And I think that time may be now.
Maybe. It just seems like fusion power to me - we're always on the brink of it, but it's always just beyond our reach. The real progress comes in tiny increments, and the increments don't add up to a whole lot so far. We're less likely to be killed by all sorts of diseases when we're young, or even old, but living to 100 was possible (albeit very rare) throughout all of history. 110 is still incredibly rare, and 120 is basically unheard of. We have not yet really begun pushing back against our fate - we're only more likely to get to the outer ranges.
-Jester