Live 200 years! What will our longevity be like in the next decade?

One of the biggest medical and technological revolutions will change our idea of longevity

Today, according to some estimates, science and medicine are adding about 3 months to your life expectancy each year. In the near future, science will extend your life expectancy by more than one year for every year that you remain alive. When this happens, we can begin to think about true longevity.

We are eagerly awaiting what Raymond Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist from the United States, named the longevity escape velocity.

Ray's prediction is that we will reach the longevity escape velocity in the next 10 to 12 years. This means that in 10 to 12 years, our life expectancy will be slightly more powerful than in 2023. This could mean more than 50 additional years of life still in 2033.

Harvard Medical School professor George Church agrees with a similar timeframe.

According to Dr. Church, "exponential technologies that have improved the speed and cost of reading, writing, and editing DNA and genetic therapies now apply to the category of age reversal."

He adds, "I think that advances in age reversal could mean that we reach the longevity escape velocity in one or two decades, within the range of the next one or two rounds of clinical trials."

So, what does this mean?

Can we extend healthy human life expectancy beyond the current record of 122? Can humans live more than 200 years? Or even indefinitely?

And if regular cycles of clinical trials can be significantly shortened by advances in AI, and if we learn to prevent and eventually eradicate cancers, heart disease, and Alzheimer's?

This idea of extending health in the coming years is one of the main motivations of biohackers around the world.

Conclusion

Taking care of your health now and ensuring the next few decades could mean living much longer, perhaps seeing your great-grandchildren go to college or going on an adventurous trip at 100 and something years old.

Maybe even going to Mars someday?