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Yeah, I have heard others talk like this before, and it's intoxicating to read, because there is some science behind it. But I think this quote from the article sums it up best:
All of science rests on ideas that were either unproven hypotheses or
crazy speculations at one point. . . . The sad reality is that most
crazy speculations fail. . . . We do not know today how to be forever
young for 1,000 years, and I am deeply skeptical that we will figure it
out in time for me!
I agree with this. At the same time, it's fun to read and I totally agree with the guy about the majority of humanity being brainwashed into thinking that living forever would somehow be a bad thing. I for one would love to live 1000 years. Do I think it will happen? Not likely. But I think it's far more likely that, say, my son will live a couple hundred.
But one thing is for sure: it's practically impossible to predict the future with any kind of reliability, so no one can say for sure what's going to happen. It's pretty clear to me that the big breakthroughs in physics ended 100 years ago, and Moore's Law has pretty much come to an end, and so it seems like the next big technological revolution will be coming in the fields of biology and genetics. And if anything happens there like has happened in physics and computers, then some things that we can't even imagine are in store for us.
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