Aubrey de Grey's Prediction for 2020

Aubrey de Grey, Chairman and Chief Science Officer of the Methuselah Foundation, presents a realistic scenario for 2020 in which everyone knows we will defeat the aging process.

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• aging
• longevity
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• biotechnology
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[beau0fletcher]

Shave the beard and he'd look in his 20s

[ERICWAGNERSLUCID]

@StarfireEKS The hair looks far older than that "dark-colored" beard! Since I'm 52, I know that the beard greys long before the hair, so it would stand to reason that he paints his beard. That's the key to looking young: Dye!

[lololololol47]

@therunningtap

You are making several bad assumptions. You are assuming that these technologies will come about in a vacuum where political and technological changes will not supplement advances like these.

a lot of our institutions will have to be rethought when people just start staying young and healthy. These technologies will be disruptive for our current system but that doesn't mean they shouldn't come about or they are somehow bad.

[therunningtap]

@lololololol47 If people stopped dying then everyone would consume more, the global population wouldn't balance because no-one dies while there are births, there would be an unthinkable increase in taxes to pay for retirees' benefits, the age of retirement would go up, there would be less jobs, less money, less quality of life.

I wouldn't deny them the chance to live a good life of good length, but not to live for so long as to make life greedy.

[lololololol47]

@lololololol47

It already is happening in Europe and America. It is also beginning to happen in China and India also, where women are more free to do what they will and their health is improving. When these technologies come about would you be the one to deny people these on the basis it would wreak "havoc"?

[lololololol47]

@therunningtap Have you not watched the video? Old used to be the 30's now many could live to be 100. The point is is that people get old and frail because of specific things that happen in their body as they age. People just don't get old because it naturl but because their body begins breaking down from its own failings. What havoc would it wreak? Do you not think that people would hold of having children if they knew they would have much longer lives barring accidents?

[therunningtap]

@lololololol47 People die when they get old, to hope for anything else is stupid. Can you imagine the havoc it would wreak on the planet if everyone stopped dying? Though I imagine if this were done, it would only be the insanely rich who got the treatment.

[lololololol47]

@therunningtap

millions dying everday because of aging is an atrocity

[therunningtap]

Living forever would be an atrocity.

[medexamtoolsdotcom]

@beau0fletcher shave his beard and he'd still have hideous teeth and talk like Sylvester the Cat.

[TwistedMind6969]

No need to shave the beard in order to look younger and fit the superficial mold or our society. I'm a woman and I can tell you that a man with a solid beard is a healthy man. A man with a good strong beard radiates wisdom and sexiness all over...

[passingbynight]

A good set of braces by a competent orthodontist would do wonders.