A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for a future drug that could repair joints instead of replacing them.
Its mostly billionaires who will be able to benefit from life extension… do you really want a world where trump, musk, and all their silicon valley friends rule the world until they turn 300 years old?
No worries about that, there is no changing the maximum age seemingly, not unless you genetically engineered babies with tech we don’t have yet.
Everyone is born with stem cells that carry so many copies of cells that are preprogrammed to die after a point to then be replaced by those stem cells. No drug can make more copies after the fact.
Then of course the dna gets denatured just by radiation and pollution and time.
Neither of these will or can be solved after someone is born. They can extend the average lifespan of a group, but they can’t exceed the maximum, which has remained constant throughout human history even as the average has changed drastically.
What’s the maximum? About 120?
Imagine having 100 or more healthy years. That seems like sci-fi, but may be possible one day still.
It will also mean working until you’re 100 before the national pension kicks in unfortunately lol
Luckily there’s no vaccine against guillotines.
Give it time.
Aroooooo
Billionaires, and everybody living outside the US
So essentially Altered Carbon?
I think that’s more kinda digitised, transferable consciousness. I’d take it tho.
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Why do you think that? We already benefit from life extension. And why only 300?
“I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I’d settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.”
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, “Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri” (1999)
If you’re that worried, start working towards killing them. Seems like it’s going to be necessary step either way to correct many problems in the world. What’s one more reason for the pyre?