You can stay young forever A Google expert talks about the longevity that humans will achieve in the next five years
A Google engineer has explained: It is possible for humans to stay young almost forever, and the technology already exists to make it a reality within five years. The theory known as “longevity escape velocity” has been popular for a while now.
This isn’t the first time that technology has been suggested to make us live longer. In fact, we’ve heard people talk about nanobots as humanity’s path to immortality… or something very similar in recent months. However, a former Google engineer has now gone a step further, and set a date for the matter.
This is basically what is known as the “longevity acceleration theory,” and it’s something like this that can be reversed. Does it sound like science fiction? It’s happening today, but in this expert’s opinion, it could become a reality in about five years.
- Can a man stay young all his life?
Ever since the world began, immortality has been a dream. Or better yet, staying young your entire life. The difference is that for some time now, this hypothesis has been relegated to the pages of science fiction and technology books. And some experts are absolutely convinced that it will be possible.
This is the case of Ray Kurzweil, a prominent futurist and former Google engineer, who has stated that technological advances will allow humans to achieve something close to eternal youth in the near future. Specifically, around 2029 or 2030. In a recent interview, he spoke about what is known as the escape velocity theory of longevity.
At least in theory, this possibility claims that future medical advances will add more than a year to life expectancy with each passing year, reaching a point where old age will no longer be able to overtake us. In fact, Kurzweil is famous for predicting other revolutions that have occurred today, such as the arrival of the Internet or the advent of smartphones.
“After 2029, you’ll recover more than a year with each passing year,” Kurzweil says. “It will come back in time.” Still, he’s talking about slowing down aging or staying young longer, not immortality. In his view, these are different ideas. He acknowledges that a child may have decades and decades ahead of him, but “he could also die tomorrow from some disease or by God’s will.”
- What does the scientific community say about the escape velocity of longevity?
As much as people like Google engineer Ray Kurzweil claim that the escape velocity of longevity will become a reality (and sooner rather than later, according to his calculations), the problem will not only be having enough technology to make it happen, but other challenges will arise as well.
On a moral, biological or even social level, what would happen if you could really stay young almost forever? For example, it is impossible not to ask another direct question: would new people have to stop being born so that there would be room for everyone in the world? It is a controversial issue, but, somehow, it is gaining more and more traction.