'Under 40? Then you will never die '

'Under 40? Then you will never die '

World February 20, 2018 14:51

amsterdam - Who is not yet forty, may never die. The English futurologist Ian Pearson makes that special prediction.

He is firmly convinced that in 2050 people can get eternal life thanks to rapid medical progress.

Pearson has been making predictions for 35 years. 85 percent of those prospects have also come true. He is not the first fantastic man: he is a member of the renowned World Academy of Art and Science, where you will only be admitted if you have distinguished yourself scientifically.

In The Sun he describes a few ways how we can achieve eternal life.

The first is through the continual renewal of body parts. With the help of biotechnology and medicine we have to be able to rejuvenate our bodies.

'Nobody wants to live forever if he is 95 years old, but that can change if you could rejuvenate your body to about 30 years,' he says. For example, through genetic manipulation that prevents cells from aging or even reversing the aging process. He also thinks that we will soon be able to replace organs with printed copies.

The second method is somewhat scarier: by replacing more and more parts with robot parts. Even your mind can later be transferred to a robot. So that if you get sick or die, your brain contents are uploaded to a computer that can pump everything back to a robot body.

Pearson warns that the first few decades will only be reserved for the super-rich to live forever. By 2060, ordinary 'mortals' will also turn.

A third method goes even further: you only live with your digital brain in a virtual world. 'We could just live in a computer simulation and be happy,' he says.

So; who has been born since 1970 can hope.

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