"Aging" is not going to be cured. PERIOD. FULL STOP! Why not? It may be difficult, but aging is a collection of physical processes, and physical processes can

"Aging" is not going to be cured. PERIOD. FULL STOP! Why not? It may be difficult, but aging is a collection of physical processes, and physical processes can be modified with sufficiently advanced technology. Sure, with improvements in medicine, we can keep people productive into their 70s and 80s when they used to spend their last decade or so as invalids. The future of medicine looks like this: you're healthy and active into old age, then you hit the floor. That's exactly my point. Medicine today consists largely of playing whack-a-mole with diseases whose underlying cause is aging. That's expensive and produces continuously decreasing benefits. We haven't failed to cure aging; we haven't even tried.