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Increases in life span due to medical technology have been rapidly plateauing as the low-hanging fruit is picked. True, because incrementally better treatments
by orangecat 11y ago
Increases in life span due to medical technology have been rapidly plateauing as the low-hanging fruit is picked.
True, because incrementally better treatments for cancer or heart disease just mean that you die at 84 instead of 82. But we've only recently started trying to prevent or repair the effects of aging, which has a much greater potential payoff.
- woodandsteel 11y agoThat was my point, which I should have made more clearly. There is a good deal of research going on into what causes aging, and it seems likely it will pay off sooner or later in ways of delaying it.