Why do people have such a hard time believing that we will have rejuvination therapies in 20-30 years time?

Answer 1

im sure there will be a lot more than rejuvination therapies this world is moving to fast and we are making thing b4 we know the outcome of what they will do.

Answer 2

They have a hard time wrapping their heads around the next presidential election or whether they should buy the choco or vanilla variety, much less something that 'sounds' like sci-fi to them, something having a science base for which they have no educational background.

These people who have a hard time believing probably have not seen James Burke's connections or studied the history of science and technology. They probably have little understanding of recombinatory nature of technology and how this trend accelerates the development of technology.

Transhumanists and singularitarians like Ray Kurzweil believe we will not only have rejuvination technology in 20-30 yrs, they believe we actually attain true morphic freedom, BECOMING a different species in 30 yrs. through the recombination (combining two novel concepts into something entirely different) of AI, Robotics, Nanotechnology and Genetic Bioengineering. In a nutshell, we would have smart tiny robots that would make everyone a savant by say, lining one's nervous system with faster inorganic materials like platinum. Just speculating, but if the internet spam is any indication, the first thing people will want is sex-related augmentation.

So where are we now? We've already mapped the human genome, now we need to figure out the legend- what does what, which gene expresses which characteristics.

True AI is a funny thing that we could spontaneously create any day now. Or it could be something that we never can achieve.

Robotics and nanotech are being innovated very rapidly. There are very large opportunities for gain in the industries and therefore an incentive to innovate.
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Even if all this singularity stuff is not true, there are still going to be brilliant targetted drugs developed all this time by the biotech and biopharmaceudical industry. Again, with the acceleration of technology, they will be able to develop a computer system so precise and detailed that it reasonably simulates the entire human body, all it's cells and tissues and all the metabolic pathways and processes in order to accurately test potential drugs and predict drug behavior. Surely with such a tool they will develop incredible life extending cocktails.

Answer 3

I think in 1870 or something, the Head Officer of the USA Patent Office said "What can be invented, has been invented".

People who say negitive stuff about amazing devices not being achievable... just don't have a clue.

Bring on the retro-aging asap... and dna gene therapy so I can become immortal, and backup my memories on a pc in case I die, to be reborn in to backup body.

Answer 4

If you go through the new s papers of 100 years back you will find news item saying by the middle of century man will be able to cure cancer completely. After hundred years we have some advanced torture method of treatment of cancer but the disease itself has not been eradicated neither any one is fully cured

Answer 5

There will be therapy for everything

Answer 6

Because we'll all be dead by then.