Without some kind of nonbiological apparatus in which to store your memory, doesn't seem feasible. It's a natural process for biological matter to decay. So, if you want to live forever then get ready to be a ghost in a shell. I don't see technology ever overcoming nature in that way. Hope you have some actual people around too, so they can change your battery.
Not all biological organisms decay and have their mortality increase year after year. There are some simple that are effectively immortal such as Turritopsis dohrnii, Hydra, and Bacteria. When talking about more complex living things there still some that can live well over 200 years. Some notable examples are the Bowhead whale (211+), rockfish (205+), Tortoise (255+) and the Greenland Shark (400, possibly even up 512). Trees can live over 5,000 years, sponges and endoliths over 10,000 years. There is a tree colony estimated to be 80,000 years old. Some organisms can be revived after millions and millions of years, take yeast (25 Million years), and bacterial spores (240 Millions years). Humans Life expectancy has been rising and that's a good start but why be limited to a near 70 year lifespan. Human Lifespan varies a lot from around 35-90+ but that's a tiny blip in time. Misao Okawa, who lived to 117 described her life as "short". Our perception of time will greatly shift as the older you get the faster it is perceived to go by.
Technology to turn off aging is so incredibly viable that it could happen in our lifetimes. It's not a question at all of living forever and being old.
Then we'll have to cure cancer cause that's what will kill almost everyone, but for a first step I look forward to immortality.
Cancer is still a major health issue but largely preventable, and it largely due to environment and not bad luck. What makes cancer stand out compared to the rest of the other health challenges we face is that a lot of times it has already spread to multiple places around the body and at that point it is very difficult to stop.
Part of the reason people work to begin with is to silence that little nagging voice that everyone has. It's always there when an accident happens to remind us, that we could have been the one in that accident. We all die and hard as we may try it will never be in our power to live eternally as we would normally. You might get your memories into a machine but machines expire just as bodies. The best I see happening is extending lifespans
Studies have shown that no one wants to die unless they in pain or suffering. I have asked people who are 100 how long they want to live and they say 105. And when they are 105 most of the time they want to live to 110 and so on. We will have more and more power over accidents with self driving cars, etc.
How long does a car last?
Usually about 5-10 years.
You can extend that time indefinitely with maintenance. They are cars over 100 years that run better than they did back when they were new. The main difference between the human body and the car is that we don't completely understand all the inner workings just yet.
FWIW even if we didn't need to pay for benefits and shit if people didn't die there'd be a big issue in that we would eventually a) run out of space and b) push our planet and it's resources to the absolute limit and eventually surpassing said limit. The earth can barely manage the current number of humans; now imagine if they never died, thus increasing the size of international population growth from an average of +2 every second to an average of +4 every second due to cutting out the second part of the "on average, four are born and two die every second" deal that we have going at the moment. An aging population is bad enough, let alone a permanent one. In order for it to be sustainable it'd eventually require that reproduction is strictly prohibited+enforced, and this would bring a fucktonne of social and ethical issues with it.
We still have plenty of room on earth. Future technology with assist greatly with the resources, what comes to mind is that Solar energy will get so mainstream that it will be the primary source or energy and there will be 3d Printers. The birthrate will not see a explosion because woman will be able to get pregnant whenever they want and will able to space their births. We won't have the decline of an aging population because age will be just a number, and as we get older we would be more and more productive with accelerating technology. The people didn't want to live forever would just die out quickly and wouldn't be much of a burden on society.
The space outside the earth is infinite. We wont be stuck on the earth for much longer. I am thinking around 200 years from we will start to have space colonies and keep branching out to the other galaxies and things out there.
Does anyone actually have any reputable scientific sources that support the notion of immortality becoming achievable within this generation? It all sounds like conjecture to me. Especially this part:
Aubrey De Gray who is one of the leading scientists said that first person to reach age 1,000 could already be 60 years old. He also said that we have 50% chance of curing aging by 2036. Ray Kurzweil a prominent futurist and predicts around 2029 that we will being adding more time to our remaining life expectancy than is going by. By the 2030s and 2040s we will have nanobots and a whole host of other emerging technologies that will allow us to life indefinitely.
No one has much of a clue what the universe will be like trillions of years from now but by that time we will probably be capable of limitless
