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Subject How long before we have the technology to become immortal?

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I doubt it will be one big breakthru. More likely we'll begin by extending healthy useful life by five or ten years. Forty will be the new 25. Sixty will be the new 40 and so on.

Then those on the leading edge - those turning sixty or so - will find that the techniques for rejuvenation are getting better. What once was a surface tuck and nip and maybe some vitamins is replaced by various treatments that can and do reverse the aging of the face and neck. Also, there are muscles I haven't felt in years suddenly being not only active again, but in pretty good shape, too.

This phase (where we are now, by the way) will buy us all an extra five years or so of relatively good health.  The rejuvenation process will keep getting better and better as the years roll on. New bones, new kidney's, new liver, and other things harvested from lab grown stem-cell mediated perfect matches. The next step will be organ rejuvenation within the body. No need for messy surgery to replace an organ. A series of injections will get you going toward growing a new kidney or new liver of your own. But this time round it will be a better, newer one that is perfect in it's dna copying of your genome. Not someone elses, but your own, without the damage and hits the instructions have taken down thru your generations and onto which you own body has added mistakes in the re=growth process as well.

In about 10 years you're seventy and look and feel about 40.  You then have the option to push the old clock back another decade or two with some new nano treatment modalities.  All this extra time you're buying piecemeal can now be offered in a package and rejuvenation becomes a serious procedure. Your memories are removed, stored, and after your brain tissue has been overhauled by the nano-bots, the memories are reloaded.

Diseases you had or were prone to develop are suddenly just gone. You're seventy, look and feel 30, and your body and your blood work say you are about 30.  How long you'll coast at this level, no one knows. But you have the choice to stay there forever. No one calls it immortality yet. But we all know it either is immortality or damned close. The year is 2019 when this realization hits most of us...
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Wow! Thanks for the post!
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Original Message You know, replacing everything in the human body when it needs to be changed, and having some badass laser system to fix skin and bones and shit like that..

Is it even possible?

I dunno.. it's the middle of the day, I'm drinking, and some punk ass kid keeps riding an electric scooter past the house. Does anybody know how to make that situation go away?

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