It soon could be time to plan your career for 1,000 years – if the progress made in anti-aging so far is any indication.
A British biomedical researcher says that the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born and the first person who will live to 1,000 is likely to be born less than 20 years after the first person to reach 150.
“I’d say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing aging under what I’d call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so,” Aubrey de Grey said.
He added that his own lifetime scientist could have all the means they need to combat aging, which includes eradicating diseases that threaten to shorten life span.
De Grey said that people may have to get a a routine ‘maintenance’, which will include gene therapies, stem cell therapies, immune stimulation and an array of other advanced medical techniques to keep them in shape.
