Will immortality ever be achieved? If so, when?
Dec 10, 2020 15:44:30 GMT 10
Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 10, 2020 15:44:30 GMT 10
This was a random thought I had the other day. With all of the pop culture and scientific advancements that have occurred since the mid-20th Century, not to mention the revolutionary breakthroughs of social media and smartphones, it feels like we've reached the upmost peak of where we can go as a society. In a sense, it feels as if all of the hard work throughout history has already been achieved to get to where we are today in 2020. We went from black & white television, racial segregation and gender inequality in the 1950s, to a time where people can now talk to someone on the opposite side of the world at the touch of a fingertip and people of all walks of life are openly embraced, all in the span of about 60 years or so.
Yet, we can only keep on going forward from here. If you think about how much has changed in the world since half a century ago, it really does makes you wonder what the year 2070 will be like. What advancements in medicine and technology will occur during the 2040s, 2050s and 2060s? 1970 is a completely different world from the year 2020. No one could have possibly envisioned the World Wide Web, IVF treatments, smartphones etc. back then.
One thing that I find particularly interesting is the idea of humans one day achieving complete immortality, whether that be in the form of mind uploading, cloning, or a type of anti-aging medicine. I can remember reading a prediction on the 2030s Wikipedia page where one scientist (who's name I can't think of off the top of my head) predicted that there is a 50/50 chance of achieving this by 2036. I personally have my doubts that the medicine will evolve to that point by then since 2036 is just over 15 years away, but I do think it will be achieved in some form in another 50 years from now.
It's a strange thought. It hasn't really occurred to me before, but at just age 21 in the year 2020, I could possibly live to a time in the future where an anti-aging treatment is readily available for use. I won't reach retirement age until around 2064, and even if I do make it to then, I will still only be 65 years old; I could possibly live for another 25-30 years after that. Who's to say what the world will be like by then. The whole concept we currently have of life and death may no longer be a thing by the time many of us are of an elderly age.
Yet, we can only keep on going forward from here. If you think about how much has changed in the world since half a century ago, it really does makes you wonder what the year 2070 will be like. What advancements in medicine and technology will occur during the 2040s, 2050s and 2060s? 1970 is a completely different world from the year 2020. No one could have possibly envisioned the World Wide Web, IVF treatments, smartphones etc. back then.
One thing that I find particularly interesting is the idea of humans one day achieving complete immortality, whether that be in the form of mind uploading, cloning, or a type of anti-aging medicine. I can remember reading a prediction on the 2030s Wikipedia page where one scientist (who's name I can't think of off the top of my head) predicted that there is a 50/50 chance of achieving this by 2036. I personally have my doubts that the medicine will evolve to that point by then since 2036 is just over 15 years away, but I do think it will be achieved in some form in another 50 years from now.
It's a strange thought. It hasn't really occurred to me before, but at just age 21 in the year 2020, I could possibly live to a time in the future where an anti-aging treatment is readily available for use. I won't reach retirement age until around 2064, and even if I do make it to then, I will still only be 65 years old; I could possibly live for another 25-30 years after that. Who's to say what the world will be like by then. The whole concept we currently have of life and death may no longer be a thing by the time many of us are of an elderly age.
