Dr Aubrey de Grey of the University of Cambridge believes that 'We will be able to live to 1,000'
Ageing is a physical phenomenon happening to our bodies, so at some point in the future, as medicine becomes more and more powerful, we will inevitably be able to address ageing just as effectively as we address many diseases today.If this is true then we will become a society of modern Methuselah. I've wanted to live forever ever since I was a small child perhaps when I first realised that I was mortal and that there would be an end to my existence.
I claim that we are close to that point because of the SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) project to prevent and cure ageing.
It is not just an idea: it's a very detailed plan to repair all the types of molecular and cellular damage that happen to us over time.
And each method to do this is either already working in a preliminary form (in clinical trials) or is based on technologies that already exist and just need to be combined.
This means that all parts of the project should be fully working in mice within just 10 years and we might take only another 10 years to get them all working in humans.
Also unlike the Struldbruggs of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels the processes are designed to prevent the deterioration due to ageing so that we may fully enjoy are extended lifespan.
