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Question In the next 1000 years....

I was wasting time on wikipedia when I found a chart of human life expectancies throughout the years.
<table style="width: 196px; height: 486px;" class="wikitable"><tbody> <tr> <td>Bronze Age<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference">[6]</sup></td> <td align="center">
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Classical Greece<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference">[7]</sup></td> <td align="center">20-30</td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Classical Rome<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference">[8]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference">[9]</sup></td> <td align="center">20-30</td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Pre-Columbian North America<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference">[10]</sup></td> <td align="center">25-35</td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Medieval
Britain<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference">[11]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference">[12]</sup></td> <td align="center">20-30</td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Early 20th Century<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference">[13]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference">[14]</sup></td> <td align="center">30-40</td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Current world average<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference">[15]



</sup></td> <td align="center">67</td> </tr></tbody></table>So, with all the great advances in modern medicine and increasingly non laborious lifestyles, how far do you think we can push our life expectancy?

Do you think in 1000 years we could live to be 200 years old?
Or do you think we will cap off around the area we are at now?
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