We will see the emergence of true biological age reversal by 2025.
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We will see the emergence of true biological age reversal by 2025.
It may be extraordinarily expensive, complex and risky, but for people who want to turn back the clock, it may be worth it. It may sound like science fiction but the science is real, and it has already begun. In fact, according to new research published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, Professor Jun-Ichi Hayashi from the University of Tsukuba in Japan has already reversed ageing in human cell lines by “turning on or off” mitochondrial function.
Another study published in CELL reports that Australian and US researchers have successfully reversed the aging process in the muscles of mice. They found that raising nuclear NAD+ in old mice reverses pseudohypoxia and metabolic dysfunction. Researchers gave the mice a compound called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide or NAD for a week and found that the age indicators in two-year-old mice were restored to that of six-month-old mice. That would be like turning a 60-year-old human into a 20-year-old!
How will our culture deal with age reversal? Will we set limits on who can age-reverse? Do we ban criminals from this technology? These are the questions we will face in a very complex future. One thing is certain, age reversal will happen and when it does it will change our species and our world forever.
Cell: http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867413015213
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Also coming in the future: Vertical Pink Farms
We are entering the techno-agricultural era. Agricultural science is changing the way we harvest our food. Robots and automation are going to play a decisive role in the way we hunt and gather. The most important and disruptive idea is what I call “Vertical PinkFarms” and it is set to decentralise the food industry forever.
The United Nations (UN) predicts by 2050 80% of the Earth’s population will live in cities. Climate change will also make traditional food production more difficult and less productive in the future. We will need more efficient systems to feed these hungry urban areas. Thankfully, several companies around the world are already producing food grown in these Vertical PinkFarms and the results are remarkable.
Vertical PinkFarms will use blue and red LED lighting to grow organic, pesticide free, climate controlled food inside indoor environments. Vertical PinkFarms use less water, less energy and enable people to grow food underground or indoors year round in any climate.
Traditional food grown on outdoor farms are exposed to the full visible light spectrum. This range includes Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet. However, agricultural science is now showing us that O, Y, G and V are not necessary for plant growth. You only need R and B LED lights are much more efficient and cooler than indoor florescent grow lights used in most indoor greenhouses. LED lights are also becoming less expensive as more companies begin to invest in this technology. Just like the solar and electric car revolution, the change will be exponential. By 2025, we may see massive Vertical PinkFarms in most major cities around the world. We may even see small Vertical PinkFarm units in our homes in the future.
Everything is always going to solve aging in the future. Color me a skeptic until they produce, say, a 5 year old mouse (or whatever would exceed the normal lifespan). Reading for example Michael Rose's 55 Theses goes a long why to explaining why skepticism is well justified. To the best of my knowledge little of what we have done so far extended human lifespan, rather it has increased the average lifespan -- most prominently by reducing youth mortality and by extending the duration that people can live with chronic disease.
It's good to be skeptical.
Even Ray Kurzweil so far talks about slowing the aging process, not reversing it:
http://pandawhale.com/post/69714/ray-kurzweil-on-the-future-of-medicine
The Fountain of Youth does not yet exist but now there are a lot of people looking for it.
I think that's what the text and links on this page reflect.
Living forever seems long. But living longer seems like something many people would want.
I would like to live in good health and a capable body until I choose not to, what a fantastic choice that would be.
10:14 PM Jan 02 2016