“The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries.”

a growing number of scientists, doctors, geneticists and nanotech experts—many with impeccable academic credentials—are insisting that there is no hard reason why ageing can’t be dramatically slowed or prevented altogether. Not only is it theoretically possible, they argue, but a scientifically achievable goal that can and should be reached in time to benefit those alive today.

“I am working on immortality,”

Today there are good reasons for thinking it is fundamentally possible.

“There are many, many different components of ageing and we are chipping away at all of them,”

Still, in the near future, say the next two to four decades, the disease of ageing will be cured.”

not everyone thinks ageing can or should be cured