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The merging of technology and biology, will not only make more or less perpetual life possible in the next 1000 years. It will make it possible within the next 100-200 years.
Think nano-bots augmenting our body. Fixing disease and malfunctioning cells as it happen. Or an eternal virtual existance in a singularity of human consciousness hosted on machines. Imagine uploading oneself, together with thousands, millions, of others, and set sail for the stars on a spaceship controlled by virtual humans.
Many possibilities exist, but extraordinary long lifespan, is not that far away. I'd hazard to guess, that the first human to live to be a thousand, is already born.
Another question alltogether is, would we want to live that long? Many who live to a ripe old age, feel ready for death. Could it be the human psyche is not entirely ready for a virtually eternal existance?
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