So, if we're so close, why isn't immortality capturing public interest yet? Ideas: Religion - Among other things, religion's goal is to help people endure the

So, if we're so close, why isn't immortality capturing public interest yet? Ideas: Religion - Among other things, religion's goal is to help people endure the inevitability of death. Thus, to many, this is a solved problem. The age divide - Older people have the immediate need, but their ideas about tech are by now set in concrete. The young are open to more radical tech, but dying of old age isn't an immediate threat to them. Nor do these two cultures tend to mix. Technological pessimism - There was a lot of overblown technological optimism in the mid-century, but the pendulum has since swung the other way. The word "chemical" no longer has positive connotations in popular culture, for example.