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Given our current rate of advancement I fully expect aging to be curable, in a few hundred years. Our current knowledge of cellular mechanics is so limited it's
by Causality1 6y ago
Given our current rate of advancement I fully expect aging to be curable, in a few hundred years. Our current knowledge of cellular mechanics is so limited it's like we're trying to understand a car having just recently figured out why ball bearings are round.
- MildlySerious 6y agoDoes this estimate take into account the continued acceleration of science and medicine? Just one interesting metric that comes to mind is the cost of genome sequencing, which has dropped 6 orders of magnitude over 20 years[1] [1] https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequencing-Costs-Data https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequen...
- Causality1 6y agoYep, and we're finding out just how limited raw genomic data is for understanding biology. Epigenetics plays a vastly larger role than anyone expected and the newly-discovered field of bioelectric computation could turn out to be nearly as important as genetics itself. We're still at the stage where what we don't know keeps getting bigger and bigger.