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You could be immortal by 2050
Ancient Greek alchemists tried to create a “philosopher’s stone” that would let people live forever, but humans have yet to beat death.
However, Dr Pearson tells The Sun that there are a number of different ways we could live forever — as long as you can make it to the year 2050.
If you kick the bucket before then, you might be part of the last generation of humans to die of old age.
METHOD #1: RENEWING YOUR BODY PARTS
“There are quite a lot of people interested in living forever,” explains Dr Pearson. “There always has been, but the difference now is tech is improving so quickly, lots of people believe they can actually do it.”
He reveals that one way to extend life would be to use biotechnologies and medicine to “keep renewing the body, and rejuvenating it”.
“No one wants to live forever at 95 years old, but if you could rejuvenate the body to 29 or 30, you might want to do that.”
This could be done in several ways, including genetic engineering that prevents (or reverses) the ageing of cells.
Alternatively, you could replace vital body organs with new parts.
Many scientists around the world are working on creating human organs using 3D printers loaded with living cells, which could one day make human organ donors redundant.
But Dr Pearson thinks it’s much more likely that we’ll extend our lives a different way: robots.
“A long time before we get to fix our bodies and rejuvenate it every time we feel like, we’ll be able to link our minds to the machine world so well, we’ll effectively be living in the cloud,” he explains.
“The mind will basically be in the cloud, and be able to use any android that you feel like to inhabit the real world.”
He says that in 50 years time, we might be able to hire an android anywhere in the world “just like a hire car”, and upload your consciousness into it.
“If you wanted to spend the evening in Australia, going to the Sydney Opera House, you could use an android.”
This means that even when your original bodies dies, you’d still be able to use your digital mind — stored on a computer — and live in the world using highly realistic robot bodies.
“The current state of sex dolls are starting to look quite human-like. Give them another 30 years of development and they’ll be extremely human-like,” Dr Pearson reveals.
“You can take any android body and they will look human-like, and download whatever mind you want. You could share one with someone else, or have one yourself, or own dozens of them.
“You might even have ones of different genders and different ages, some old, young, female, male — there might be new genders by 2050 as well, so several other ones you can pick too.”
He explains that we’ll have to wait until around “2045, 2050” before we’ll be able to create these strong brain-to-machine links, and says the cost will be very high initially.
The first people to use robot bodies to become immortal will be the rich, but then “the price will gradually come down”.
“One day your body dies — maybe you get hit by a bus or a nasty disease — but it doesn’t matter, because your mind will still be there. You’ll be able to use an android body instead of the organic one you just lost.”
For normal people on everyday salaries, it’s more likely that you’ll have to wait a little longer.
You could be immortal by 2050
Ancient Greek alchemists tried to create a “philosopher’s stone” that would let people live forever, but humans have yet to beat death.
However, Dr Pearson tells The Sun that there are a number of different ways we could live forever — as long as you can make it to the year 2050.
If you kick the bucket before then, you might be part of the last generation of humans to die of old age.
METHOD #1: RENEWING YOUR BODY PARTS
“There are quite a lot of people interested in living forever,” explains Dr Pearson. “There always has been, but the difference now is tech is improving so quickly, lots of people believe they can actually do it.”
He reveals that one way to extend life would be to use biotechnologies and medicine to “keep renewing the body, and rejuvenating it”.
“No one wants to live forever at 95 years old, but if you could rejuvenate the body to 29 or 30, you might want to do that.”
This could be done in several ways, including genetic engineering that prevents (or reverses) the ageing of cells.
Alternatively, you could replace vital body organs with new parts.
Many scientists around the world are working on creating human organs using 3D printers loaded with living cells, which could one day make human organ donors redundant.
But Dr Pearson thinks it’s much more likely that we’ll extend our lives a different way: robots.
“A long time before we get to fix our bodies and rejuvenate it every time we feel like, we’ll be able to link our minds to the machine world so well, we’ll effectively be living in the cloud,” he explains.
“The mind will basically be in the cloud, and be able to use any android that you feel like to inhabit the real world.”
He says that in 50 years time, we might be able to hire an android anywhere in the world “just like a hire car”, and upload your consciousness into it.
“If you wanted to spend the evening in Australia, going to the Sydney Opera House, you could use an android.”
This means that even when your original bodies dies, you’d still be able to use your digital mind — stored on a computer — and live in the world using highly realistic robot bodies.
“The current state of sex dolls are starting to look quite human-like. Give them another 30 years of development and they’ll be extremely human-like,” Dr Pearson reveals.
“You can take any android body and they will look human-like, and download whatever mind you want. You could share one with someone else, or have one yourself, or own dozens of them.
“You might even have ones of different genders and different ages, some old, young, female, male — there might be new genders by 2050 as well, so several other ones you can pick too.”
He explains that we’ll have to wait until around “2045, 2050” before we’ll be able to create these strong brain-to-machine links, and says the cost will be very high initially.
The first people to use robot bodies to become immortal will be the rich, but then “the price will gradually come down”.
“One day your body dies — maybe you get hit by a bus or a nasty disease — but it doesn’t matter, because your mind will still be there. You’ll be able to use an android body instead of the organic one you just lost.”
For normal people on everyday salaries, it’s more likely that you’ll have to wait a little longer.
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