According to US data on social security, he said, the probability that a 25-year-old dying before 26 years of 0.1%. If we can keep this constant risk throughout life, but he is not growing because of age-related diseases, the average person would - statistically speaking - live 1000 years.
In March 2014, a pioneering American biologist Craig Venter and technologies - along with the tech entrepreneur founder of the Prize Fund X, Peter Diamandis - announced a new company called human longevity Inc. This is not aimed at the development of anti-aging products or compete with Calico, says Venter. But it plans to create a giant database of human genome sequences 1000000 in 2020, including the supercentenarians.
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Sid Sinclair
Either this benefit would be restricted to the very wealthy, or over population becomes an even bigger problem!
Psychothumbs
It boggles my mind that more people aren't thinking about progress in life extension as one of the big issues for the 21st century. Looking at what's been accomplished just in the last decade, it's unimaginable to me that there won't be at least some practical progress by the middle of the century. We are getting quite close to the possibility of hitting actuarial escape velocity.
Uneven Surface
It's a poor idea. Life is not meant to be infinite. What did Peter Ustinov say? "Life without death would be meaningless, like a map without a scale". Let's stay mortal.
