The future ain't what it used to be
The race for super longevity is on
Longevity used to mean dying old and sick.
Longevity used to be satisfied with 76 years.
Modern longevity means much more than that.
Modern longevity will benefit from genetic engineering.
Modern longevity will take advantage of tissue regeneration.
Modern longevity will profit from molecular and robotic engineering.
Today, longevity means reaching the Age of Unlimited Life Expectancy.
Seven Longevity Habits
Is unlimited longevity possible or even desirable?
I think we can all agree that mandatory death is universally unpopular
Self-preservation is Nature's most powerful instinct, as true for our Homo Erectus ancestors of 1.9 million years ago as it is for you and me today. To be clear, our goal is not "immortality." We don't even know what that is, and frankly, the concept of immortality is just as scary as mandatory death. We want to live in a world in which death becomes optional rather than mandatory, and disease is unknown. Ultimately, we as a species will live long enough and get smart enough to UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING. That's the long-range goal. Click here for the Youtube video.
Our minimal goal is Delayed Compressed Morbidity
A concept first proposed by Dr. Andrew Weil, it means living a healthy, pain-free, drug-free life well past one hundred. The human maximum lifespan is 120. As we approach this number of years, suddenly within a month's time, our DNA crashes and we die. What most people experience now is Early Extended Morbidity, in which our primitive medical industry manages our diseases and misery with pharmaceuticals and surgery, until we die young, long before the age of 100. Click here for the Youtube video.
What's the first signpost on the road to unlimited longevity?
Further down the page, you will read about genetic engineering and tissue regeneration, longevity-extending techniques that are in development right now. For example, a study just came out which predicts that human teeth will be regrown from stem cells in six years' time. The scientists working on it don't want to publicize the ultimate goal of "unlimited life extension" because they don't want to sound crazy and lose their grant money.
What about overpopulation and scarcity of resources?
The global population is currently shrinking due to a number of factors. Regardless, children are nature's replacements. We won't need replacements. Having children will go out of fashion one day. As far as resources, all the supposed "scarcities" in the world add up to one big lie. When sharing finally replaces greed, this fact will become obvious. And won't wealthy people have a monopoly on these techniques? All new technologies eventually become popularized and reach the masses.
What about the doomsayers?
Linear-thinking people who talk about "future generations," "in the decades to come," and "not in my lifetime," are clueless about our future. The EXPONENTIAL development of science, technology, and politics will reverse global warming, clean the biosphere, eliminate nuclear weapons, solve energy needs with nuclear fusion, and abolish all forms of poverty and greed. If you don't develop a positive vision of your future, you probably won't have one. Hold onto the Big Picture. Since the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, the universe has come down to the point when intelligent life (that's us) will determine existence on our own terms.
Future medicine is only half of the picture
New tissues and new organs created with genetic engineering and artificial intelligence will eventually "go bad" again, unless you switch your unhealthy habits with healthy ones. That's what wellness coaching is for. It's all part of "growing up" as a species.
Our amazing future
Genetic engineering
Molecular engineering
Molecular engineering
and tissue regeneration, according to Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near, will flourish in the late 2020s. Using stem cell therapy and other medical technologies, medical science will be able to replace in situ any tissue or organ of ours that is diseased, injured, or just plain worn out with new tissues and organs. In addition, co
and tissue regeneration, according to Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near, will flourish in the late 2020s. Using stem cell therapy and other medical technologies, medical science will be able to replace in situ any tissue or organ of ours that is diseased, injured, or just plain worn out with new tissues and organs. In addition, corrupted DNA will be fixed to eliminate many health problems at their source. If we make it alive to this point, we will have defeated mandatory death.
Molecular engineering
Molecular engineering
Molecular engineering
and nano-technology will flourish in the 2030s. Imagine a desktop molecular assembler, a kind of Star Trek 'replicator," that assembles from a resevoir of random molecules anything you tell it to - Blue Pants #3, Taco Meal #12, Paintbrush #4 - anything you want, and when you are finished with the item, you place it back into the recycle
and nano-technology will flourish in the 2030s. Imagine a desktop molecular assembler, a kind of Star Trek 'replicator," that assembles from a resevoir of random molecules anything you tell it to - Blue Pants #3, Taco Meal #12, Paintbrush #4 - anything you want, and when you are finished with the item, you place it back into the recycle bin. Community molecular assemblers will create any large items for your temporary use. Concepts like "ownership," "money," and "capitalism" will become obsolete. Disease and injury will be defeated at the atomic level.
Robotic engineering
Molecular engineering
Robotic engineering
and artificial intelligence will peak in the 2040s. We are already on the road to becoming cyborgs (cybernetic organisms). Think about how many people now have tooth implants, hearing aids, pacemakers, artificial joints, and mind-directed limbs. Gradually as we ourselves elect to replace more and more biological functions with mechanic
and artificial intelligence will peak in the 2040s. We are already on the road to becoming cyborgs (cybernetic organisms). Think about how many people now have tooth implants, hearing aids, pacemakers, artificial joints, and mind-directed limbs. Gradually as we ourselves elect to replace more and more biological functions with mechanical ones, we will lose our fear of "robots" as "the other" and embrace this technology as being far superior to fragile biology. Brain implants will increase our cognitive abilities a hundred-fold, a thousand-fold, and more.
The Six Epochs of Exponential Change
Epoch One
Epoch Three
Epoch One
After the Big Bang-the birth of information-the first 10 billion years sees the beginning of physics and chemistry. Information is contained in atomic structures. Elements form and planets coalesce around stars, creating conditions for Epoch 2.
Epoch Two
Epoch Three
Epoch One
The next four billion years sees the birth of biology. Information is contained in DNA. Biological life begins on Earth in the form of genetic material. Primitive forms of DNA develop in complexity until the next shift to Epoch 3.
Epoch Three
Epoch Three
Epoch Three
The next one billion years sees the development of brains. Information is contained in neural patterns. Life creates the ability to gather information from emotions and sensory organs. Hominids prepare the way for Epoch 4.
Epoch Four
Epoch Four
Epoch Four
The next 10,000 years gives birth to technology. With sedentary agriculture and class society, changes come even faster. Information is contained in hardware and software designs, impelling us with blinding speed into Epoch 5.
Epoch Five
Epoch Four
Epoch Four
Now, with the merger of technology and human intelligence, combined with unlimited longevity, we overcome the profound limitations of biology, graduating into a new life-form whose intelligence multiplies at an increasing rate.
Epoch Six
Epoch Four
Epoch Six
After 2050, the universe wakes up. Will patterns of matter and energy, yin and yang, become saturated with the human mind?
Perhaps. . .
The birth of a new species. . .
exploring other dimensions. All on board!