The fountain of youth (extending the human life span?)

[SacreBaikal]

Well gee... time to go on a hardcore diet...

>asexuality and lethargy

... maybe I'll just wait until they find the cure without side effects.

Keep up the search, I don't want to die in the next 80 years.

[cocainelsdxtc]

sheldon from big bang theory is a theoretical physicist as well wonder if kaku has the same personality as him

[Halo1138]

Hmm. No sex...

Suddenly, death seems more preferable...

[Lucuskane]

@Halo1138 If you can accept the potential information physics might offer over time, and increase in biotech i could give up sex for awhile, then reverse the process. Remmember technology has an exponential growth curve.

[Halo1138]

@Lucuskane What, make it like a lightswitch then; able to choose between the two times at will?

And you're right. Technology is as unpredictable as people are. Anything can happen in the next few minutes.

[Rui108]

Hunger, cold, no sex?! No thanks.

[Lucuskane]

@Rui108 These effects can be reverse by you if you live long enough. It is not a final decision, so give it a second thought.

[XTruth]

loose interest in sex?

[Lucuskane]

@XTruth Loose interest, not the ability to have sex.

[gert123456]

You know what's odd? Maybe someone can explain it to me. I'm open to any explanation that makes sense: Scientists as smart as Kaku easily recognise & accept that the process of aging is nothing more than the LOSS OF INFORMATION on a cellular level. So why is the entire THEORY of evolution based on the idea that cells GAIN information & become increasingly complex over time. Cells cannot even gain information over a 90 year lifetime, so why the THEORY that its doing so over millions of years???

[Jeff154878]

@gert123456 The theory of evolution isn't based on the idea that cells gain information, its based on the idea that cells occasionally mutate due to outside factors. These mutations produce random changes in the cell's DNA causing them to function differently. Sometimes these benefit the organism, sometimes they're harmful and other times theres no real effect. It's based largely on chance and not the idea that the cells gain information to become more complex.

[gert123456]

@Jeff154878 Sure Jeff, but for a single celled organism to eventually evolve into a human, clearly involves a LOT of gained information, i.e. a human is made up of far more genetic info than a single celled organism. And as far as I know, all observed mutations have resulted in a loss of genetic info, not gaining new info. Be that as it may, the chances of trillions of collective mutations resulting in a human being is to me as unlikely as a junk yard exploding and a Rolls Royce coming down.

[MindofaJedi]

Pills will never help you live longer . Plant based diets , fasting , exercise , and detox will keep you living longer and healthier . Vaccines , meat based diets , sugar consumption , plug in air fresheners will all shorten your life .

[MSK120]

Sure, pills wont help, but manipulating and repairing genes and cells will.

[MindofaJedi]

That will never be possible through drugs . Every drug invented so far has shortened the life span . Chemo lessens your chance of beating cancer , AZT makes you die from AIDS much much sooner and vaccines make you sick more often . Western medicine has a failure rate close to 100 %. They are pretty good at fixing broken bones or putting in some fake tits though .

[MSK120]

Who said it had to be through drugs though? Btw, you suck at trolling.

[TwiztedRune]

Very interesting!

[bradwatson7324]

Great, I'll get to live much longer...in the body of a goddamned 70 year old man.

And, since the world human population is growing, is this technology such a good thing right now?

[mollytherealdeal]

Well, perhaps technology may be able to reverse aging of your body.

World human population will increase until about 2050, then decline. We could develop the technology to give people the food, water, and energy that they will need, even though it seems challenging right now.

[o0xemas0o]

We should be able to extend human life before fifty years. He neglects nanomedical advances in his estimations. I'd put the timeline around ten years.