Technology is improving exponentially, and according to Google’s chief futurist Ray Kurzweil, humans could start living forever by 2029. Kurzweil believes 2029 will be a tipping point for medical technologies, technology will be able to add one additional year every year to your life expectancy.
The idea of living forever is likely to be insane or unrealistic for the majority of humanity, and maybe humans simply prefer to live once and rest in peace afterwards. One of my closest friends said: “You do not want to be immortal, because it reaps away the value of life”. Which is somewhat true, if you have all the time to do whatever you want, becoming the best procrastinator is even possible as there is no urge for anything. To be honest, I am not sure if she is right or wrong, and I am not sure if immortality is a gift or a curse, but, I do believe that a option to extend life is better than no options. Take one minute, and imagine that life expectancy throughout Europe around the 1800s hovered between 30 and 40 years of age. This would mean that we as students have already passed 50% of our life if we lived in the 1800s…
At the opposite end of my friend’s spectrum are the billionaires of Silicon Valley, Google’s co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Amazon’s founder Jef Bezos, and Paypal’s co-founder Peter Thiel. Billionaires that have invested millions and even billions in organisations like Calico (short for the California Life Company, Unity, and Alcor.
Immortality or no immortality, the exponential growth of technological advancements will at the very least extend our lives and make us physically younger.
Life is short
Life expectancy between 30 and 40 years is probably surreal for the majority of us
But is an life expectancy between 80 and 100 normal?
Everyone has their opinions about life, and therefore I wonder what you guys think of the quest for eternal life
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