The great bane of the human condition has always been the ever-increasing disparity between the mind’s continuing evolution paired with the body’s painful degradation and decay. What could we have done at age 20 with the experience and wisdom we now possess? According to Dr. Ian Pearson, this age-old problem may not be an issue in the future. No longer will the old and weary, those who’s tongues forked no lighting, need to rage against the dying of the light. Pearson predicts that by 2050, improvements in genetic engineering may grant humans near-immortality by reversing or reducing the ageing of cells. Pearson commented on these possible advances: “There are quite a lot of people interested in living forever. There always has been, but the difference now is tech is improving so quickly, lots of people believe they can actually do it.”
See Joe Pinkstone, Could You Live Forever? Humans Will Achieve IMMORTALITY Using AI and Genetic Engineering by 2050, Expert Claims, DailyMail.com, February 19, 2018.
