Current Events > I predict humans average life span will increase to 150 years old

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At least.

Biological and cybernetic modifications will allow this. Might happen soon-ish. People born in 2050 may live to see 2200.

I think 120 is more realistic for an average, but near immortality will be a thing for some. It all depends on what exactly happens to a brain that gets that old.

I'll be waiting in the frozen chambers of Alcor.
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I'd expect suicide rates to increase also

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Nah. It'll never pass 130. In fact, it'll never be anything but super rare to pass 130.
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I like the sound of at least 120.

What the point live that long when you body get to old?
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Only way I see that happening is if capitalism fulfills its ultimate goal of making labor obsolete through automation and the bourgeoisie mass exterminate the working class

Otherwise, capitalism demands a proletariat that dies off shortly after their physical attributes wane instead of lingering for decades with diminishing contributions to society (and if you invent technology cheap enough to augment their physical capacity sufficiently, why couldn't that technology just be applied to a robot instead to replace them entirely?)
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Most of us haven't even respected the time we've got lol
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Humans used yo have a difficult time living past their thirties. Now with medicine, proper diet and exercising techniques, humans enjoy lives up to around 80 years.

Today there are special people who are very fit at 60 years old. In the future with advanced nutrition and breakthrough technology, humans will be able yo raise the bar.

Forty will become the new twenty.

sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Humans used yo have a difficult time living past their thirties.

Mostly because they had a hard time living past infancy. Life expectancy has gone up substantially but the average an adult would reach looks pretty familiar for large parts of history.
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plz no
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