Quote from: Christopher_Hayes on November 06, 2018, 06:23:15 PM

With the kind of technology we have now? No, because there isn't a technology that can make this happen, whether digitally or biologically. There's not even a company that is working on this. So the answer to your question is no. But come back after 50-100 years, maybe the future generation finally found a way to defeat once and for all.

He's not asking if it can be done today but in the future. Ageing is probably -- or likely -- mostly genetic so I'm sure at some point we'll be able to turn that off due to genetic engineering and also live much longer due to medical advances and such, but there's a whole host of factors involved in ageing. Organs will just give up eventually so they'll either need to be replaced like car parts every so often or we'll need to invent new types of synthetic or mechanical organs -- but they can and will also break. I don't know if we'll ever be able to truly live forever but life expectancy could probably double within a hundred years or so. We'll likely improve our diet and eliminate a lot of causes of cancer and heart disease as we are learning how to minimize already, but you probably won't be able to ever eliminate dying due to trauma such as accidents and the longer you live the more likely you're going to be involved in them. Maybe someday we'll be able to upload or "save" our consciousness to a computer and maybe that will give us some sort of immortality, but it's a bit spooky even thinking about, but what actually is redlips06's definition of "forever"? The sun is going to explode and engulf this planet at some point so unless we can find another outside the solar system then we'll be screwed eventually. Even further on from that the universe will also probably collapse in on itself at some point so how would we survive that unless we can find a wormhole to another universe or dimension or something. I think we should just accept that one day we, the planet and also the universe are not going to exist any more and make the most of what we have now.