Will Nano-technology Promote Longevity ? (within our lifespan)

[Andrews]

Nanotech will it ever be able to contribute to longevity, and actually help us live forever. I basically ask whether nanotechnology will be able to progress sufficiently by 2030 to allow a 70 year old man to feel young and healthy again.

[Lisa]

Living longer isn’t simply a question of possibility it does equally involve governmental support. If the government defines who and who shouldn’t live longer, what will happen to the contemporary concept of our current world? Will our population exceed billions?

[Superhuman]

Hello Visas - Yes Nano-technology is found in Medicine as well - and dentists are working on special minerals and materials as well.

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The government is currently not really in favour of human immortality. The concept of human immortality is for many an illusion and for others a threat to economic stability. It is certain that human immortality will be humans most advance and complex achievement in technology.


Global forces around the world are somehow interested, maybe Russia is not really advertising much about research on human intelligence due to controversial debates. The same is probably true for China. Yet, they are most surely into something fascinating –


However, in the western world progress in human longevity is widely advertised. Specialists such as Aubrey De Grey suggest that nano-technology will induce longer life within our lifespan. But can we really expect to live a thousand years?

[marley]

Let’s say that the upper limit to human longevity is 1,000 years, and definitely Nano-technology will play an important role in reaching such an elevated age. Of course it is hard to predict the future; but with sufficient funds injected into research and development people are able to put knowledge into practice.



A very interesting utopian possibility would be to transplant the mind and/or store the brain into a foreign body. Human cloning, cyborgs and DNA replications are all methods are all part of nano-tech aimed towards human enhancement.



The question is, can we really clone our mind – will we still be the same person – Maybe science-fiction movies can provide us some insight.

[Superhuman]

Nano-technology can help us to be able to live forever and become immortals. However, I have some severe concerns in understanding how nano-technology will help people to tackle aging. Based on current technology I doubt that by 2030, our DNA can be manipulated.

In the upcoming decades, medicine which regenerate our cells will most probably the most competitive advancements. However, changing the DNA with the use of nano-technology is still far-from feasible achievements.

People shouldn’t expect a miracle in short time – maybe in the future people will become immortal based on various types of interventions, but I doubt that our generation will be able to enjoy it.