Science has been progressing so rapidly that some of us could live forever in the next decade, according to some experts.
Boffins say advances in increasing human life expectancy means some people could achieve immortality as soon as the 2030s.
Longevity escape velocity is a theory that we may soon reach a point where ageing is optional. The idea is that if life expectancy increases at a higher rate than the actual ageing process, so people will never actually die.
While people have a ‘chronological age’, this is not believed to be the same as their ‘biological age’ which can be halted or slowed down. People can therefore have a younger ‘biological age’ than the actual number of years they have been alive and can also extend their remaining life expectancy faster than time passes.
One of the leading proponents of this theory is a former Google engineer known for making accurate predictions about the future.
In 1990, Ray Kurzweil correctly predicted that a computer would beat human world chess champions by 2000. He also forecasted the rise of portable computers and smartphones.
Of a whopping 147 predictions about the future, the now 76-year-old says 115 of them were accurate giving him a success rate of 86%. He first predicted technology will allow humans to achieve everlasting life by 2030 in 2005, and doubled-down on this in a recent podcast. He said people today who are in their 30s and younger might have a shot at immortality.
