Biotechnology Will Utterly Transform Human Life
Source the Times Online
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that by the end of this century lifespans will at least double. Not only that but the quality of the later years will be as good or nearly so as youth. The science behind it is not only plausable but quite a bit of it already known. There is little skepticism that the remaining obsticles can not be over come soon. That and some opposition to overcome from partisans of mortality on the extreme right and left.
The left may tout social degeneration due to a huge population sharing limited resources, while some on the right will proclaim the quality of a finite life and a better after life. Therefore many extremists will not welcome the conquest of death.
BY THE END of this century, the typical European may attend a family reunion in which five generations are playing together. Great-great-great grandma, at 150 years old, will be as vital, with muscle tone as firm and supple, skin as elastic and glowing, as her 30-year-old great-great-granddaughter with whom she’s playing tennis...
The younger members of her extended family will have never caught a cold. From birth they will have been immune to most of the shocks to which human flesh has long been heir, such as diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. Her grandson, who recently suffered a car accident, will be sporting new versions of the arm and lung that got damaged in the wreck. He’ll be playing a game of football as skilled and energetic as anyone else there.
The younger members of her extended family will have never caught a cold. From birth they will have been immune to most of the shocks to which human flesh has long been heir, such as diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. Her grandson, who recently suffered a car accident, will be sporting new versions of the arm and lung that got damaged in the wreck. He’ll be playing a game of football as skilled and energetic as anyone else there.
h/t Lucianne
These advances are just in biotechnology, but we are also making great strides "nanorobotics." The merging of biology and nanorobotics (biorobotics) opens to us every possiblility imaginable from medicine to enhancing human intelligence times thousands. I intend to post more on biorobotics later.
Posted Saturday April 8, 2006 | Catagory: (Science & Technology, Health/Medicine) | Permalink
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