Hmmm...this has been a goal of mankind for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians wanted it...so did Ponce de Leon in the late 15th century.
The SV billionaires just want to do it in a more scientific way with cutting edge technology...
Technology is always cutting edge. We don't understand nearly enough about the human brain, body and ageing in general right now to be able to "solve" this problem.
New technology is cutting edge. Simple things like a barometric chamber are not new and do have positive health benefits that have been seen to impact life expectancy (well at least improved some specific aspects associated with aging).
I hope the future doesn't rest on the sci-fi futurist pipe dreams of these deeply mediocre billionaires. Mars colonies, stupid tunnels, consumer flights to almost-space, and now a cure for aging. Overpopulation in the short term and ecological destruction in the long term (despeciation, water supply, desertification) renders many of these non-solutions to non-problems moot.
We can't even simulate all the organs in the body, let alone do it to the scale and depth needed to effectively sort out EVERY possibility for death. I would rather these billionaires pay their taxes to allow the NIH and other actually competent people in this field figure out how to build these models than continue to push overpriced vaporware that doesn't actually solve key health problems. If billionaires cared so much about being aging, they'd support local farmers and help in stopping food deserts across the country, especially as heart disease is the leading cause of death. But noooooooooo, big pills go brr
Yeah, so did the ones behind Calico last decade. How's that been going, anyway?
Calico continues to do early stage research and has some molecules moving into clinical trials. Suffice to say, Larry Page is not immortal yet.
So they can lord over us forever!
If we can get Jeff bezos to live to 300 do you think he will try to do something about the climate or just leave the planet
Well, if people start regularly living to be 300 (or more) years old, we'll have to figure out a way to offload them to another planet anyway, climate change or not.