Everytime I see stuff like this there is inevitably a want-to-be-29-forever boomer behind it somewhere.
Perhaps, just perhaps, our children may be able to extend their lives, and theirs may live longer still, but to suggest it will happen to the current generation is woefully optimistic.
Escape velocity is a powerful idea. Live long enough to live forever.
If you were born in 1945, living to 2027 is very likely. In 20 years, do you really think life expectancy will be stuck at 82? My dad was born in 1946 and most of his elders lived beyond 86. My reasonable assumption is that he will live to 100. My optimistic assumption is that 40 years from now, he will have access to much better technology, and will live well beyond 100.
One big reason to have confidence in this is that there are trillions of dollars backing the boomers' goals. As they age, people will take the "cure aging" movement more seriously.
However, while there is room for growth in the area, I don't see any dramatic advancement for those of us living our lives today... perhaps 10 or 15 years or so.
Are you a biologist? There are respected biologists today who do see "dramatic advancement". It must be discouraging to them to have their work dismissed by people who aren't even familiar with it.
Hell, I feel like that and I'm way younger than a baby boomer.
I think it is very possible that babies being born now will have significantly longer lives. Not immortality, but much longer than normal.
It's hard to extend your life span as they are tons of factors, out of your control, that affect it. However, you can try to simply live. Most likely, anything you engage in (including too much sport) that is supposed to help you live longer will ultimately shrink your lifetime. Just live. We are programmed to live as long as we want to (unless a car runs us over). The trick here is to not fight nature, not follow society, and definitely master the differences between "need" and "want".
