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[HardBurntChip]

Hey all

This is my first post and I was just wondering something,

I am 17 and i love reading about all the amazing new technologies that are right around the corner,

The only thing that frustrates me is that the really amazing stuff like space travel etc. would still be out of my life time. The Idea of extending my life to see some of the amazing new technologies that will be occurring is something I would love to happen even if it’s just by a few decades. I was just wondering if those of you who are more versed in stuff like this think the 'immortality' treatments really are a few years away and if they are, if the public would have access to them.

As an after thought, is there anyone who would not consider extending their lives and if so, why?

Edited by HardBurntChip, 16 May 2012 - 02:10 PM.

[CyberMisterBeauty]

Hi!

If you are talking about reverse aging,you probably have read the post of "2065-treatments that can halt aging".But certainly much before 2065,we will be able to get life extension through nanobots,telomerase repairs and stem cells.Or you could frezze your body to "revive" many years later...

If we do that,we will survive till 22nd century...Don't be so pessimistic,I'm 20 years old and I'm more optimistic than you...

[HardBurntChip]

I'm not so worried about whether I'll be alive to see it as being allowed to use it, or whether I'll even what to since there are some dire predictions cast

[zen_mutiny]

I would love to see life extension becoming widespread in my years and would personally jump at the chance to benefit from it myself. 80-100 years is simply not enough time to do all I want to do with my life. However, even failing that, I can at least hope to see the advent of cars that drive themselves, full immersion virtual reality, a manned mission to Mars, thought-controlled electronics, digital telepathy and many other wonders that could feasibly occur within the next 20-50 years.

Edited by zen_mutiny, 16 May 2012 - 04:33 PM.

[SG-1]

Yeah VR would make us live a lot longer by itself. I don't know if the average person could afford it by the time our generation dies, but it seems possible to slip yourself into a vegetative state or something and connect to virtual reality.

We could also in theory take the brain and preserve it, place in a bomb shelter or something and link the brain (which, being preserved can live to 400 years I think) to virtual reality. We could live in VR or control an android via Avatar-like-systems as a brain.
I think that will be possible within my lifetime, which is like 2070-2080s.

Just think about what we could do in 200-400 years! If we were still preserved as a brain, in 400 years I think if we haven't found a way to upload a mind without loosing our "selves" we won't ever.

Aubrey De Gray said that it might be possible to extend our lives by say 20%, live long enough to see the next improvement, which may be 50%, and live long enough etc until immortality.

[Italian Ufo]

I believe that around 2030-5 stem cells pharamacies/factories will start to become widespread. In this pharamacies it will possible to grow your own cells for a tissue that needs to repaired or regeneration.
The prices will be high at the beggining but they will start to decrase in 10 or 15 years from then.
For the ones who can afford it, life will be a bit longer. Maybe of 20 years and for sure we will suffer less the pathologies.
Around 2050 entire organs can be replaced and this will increase the life span.
I believe that a genetic treatment may be possible only in the next century.
This is the scale how regenerative medicine will work more or less. Maybe it may be a bit faster or a bit slower.

In anycase I have decided to start paying to preserve my body with a company that deals with cryonics. I for sure want this life to be much longer or maybe immortal

[Zeitgeist123]

Yeah VR would make us live a lot longer by itself. I don't know if the average person could afford it by the time our generation dies, but it seems possible to slip yourself into a vegetative state or something and connect to virtual reality.

We could also in theory take the brain and preserve it, place in a bomb shelter or something and link the brain (which, being preserved can live to 400 years I think) to virtual reality. We could live in VR or control an android via Avatar-like-systems as a brain.
I think that will be possible within my lifetime, which is like 2070-2080s.

Just think about what we could do in 200-400 years! If we were still preserved as a brain, in 400 years I think if we haven't found a way to upload a mind without loosing our "selves" we won't ever.

Aubrey De Gray said that it might be possible to extend our lives by say 20%, live long enough to see the next improvement, which may be 50%, and live long enough etc until immortality.

let's not forget that reverse-aging will come far later after the "next improvement", so we would be walking prunes by that time for quite a while...

[SG-1]

I didn't forget that, you'll look 150 haha

Edited by SG-1, 17 May 2012 - 02:22 AM.

[Guyverman1990]

First they are beginning to test it on rodents, then maybe they'll test them on rabbits, dogs and cats 5-10 years from now.

Afterwards, they'll test it on a human then it will become widespread by the 2030's I believe.