Recently, technology has been improving and humans are starting to understand a lot of things, like death, ageing, mortality and immortality. The world has experienced a high amount of growth in the tech world in the last 50 years and although, a lot of people foresaw that by 2020, humans would had a lot of tech around them, nobody foresaw that humans would be chasing immortality, anti-ageing, and so on so as to increase their lifespan and keep their consciousness.
Scientist have been able to observe that old age isn’t as glorious as they make it seem, my grandfather in his old age didn’t enjoy much of life like when he was in his youth, at that point, his body cells where dying gradually, he was prone to a lot of diseases and he was always stuck to a place, his eyes were too weak to see anything and he wasn’t enjoying the sun anymore, and he could barely remember things and faces (oh, what a boring life). What would he look like if my grandfather was able to do the things he could do when he was younger, or if he could hold on for years longer?
In the past, nobody cared about ageing and/or not dying but with Bill Marris, things started to change one after the other. Calico a Google company is aimed at extending life and ageing problem. Google want to make sure that people are able to live longer and be able to enjoy long live and the anti-ageing process. It is believed that the process of ageing is caused by damaged Epigenome which shows hoe the DNA is packaged. The ability of the DNA not to be repaired as a result of the epigenome being damaged makes the cell not to understand the time of cell it is and the function. Scientist have been able to slowdown the damaging of the epigenome thereby slowing down ageing.
To solve this, companies like ALCOR have been working on cryonics where they just preserve the bodies of dead people with the hope that one day, they would resurrect or be revived. This is really absurd you will say, but with scientist finding a ways to make human lives come back, then the bodies kept at the low temperature stainless steel will be able to come back to life easily.
Do you think it is possible to reprogram the entire epigenome of the body so as to stop ageing and live a good life without knowing the age of a person? This is the future we are expecting.
Reference
https://interestingengineering.com/12-innovations-that-could-make-reverse-aging-a-reality