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The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . And What You Can Do Right Now

by Sergey Young · 23 Aug 2021 · 326pp · 88,968 words

two to your life. Many of you will live to see 100 or 120 years of age. We are only a few decades away from “longevity escape velocity,” so once we make it through the next couple of decades, we will have the knowledge to overcome whatever problems we will encounter. Eventually, everyone

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will be able to achieve longevity escape velocity and defeat death altogether. Solving the problem of aging is the biggest and most worthwhile endeavor the human race has ever tackled. It is an

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of the not-for-profit Methuselah Foundation, whose goal is to “make ninety the new fifty by 2030.” David and Aubrey came up with the longevity escape velocity model of life expectancy, which predicts that humans will be able to live indefinitely when advances in medicine and technology outpace the passage of time

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live to 150, 200, or more. In theory, at least, these advances may even empower human beings to escape the bonds of mortality altogether. Once longevity escape velocity is achieved, no matter how quickly you age or what strange new illness you acquire, scientific development will be a few steps ahead, providing a

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the truth is that few longevity scientists of note dismiss the concept of radical life extension out of hand. Logically and scientifically, the theory of longevity escape velocity has merit. To understand the exponential medical and scientific breakthroughs we’re on the cusp of, just consider the COVID-19 vaccine in the context

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Google’s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil, whose accuracy of predictions in the technology world has earned him “oracle” status in Silicon Valley, says that longevity escape velocity is “just another ten to twelve years away.”2 Does that sound laughable to you? If so, blame the audacity of the concept or the

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, when Ray makes a prediction, many people now set their watch by it. Nobody laughs anymore. It is anybody’s guess what will become of longevity escape velocity, or when it may come to pass. It might be a hundred years before we achieve such a grand ambition. We may find that despite

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centuries. And you see that immortality is at least theoretically possible. But to cross over from “living longer” to “living forever,” we return to the longevity escape velocity model from David Gobel and Aubrey de Grey that we first visited in chapter one. If this concept was new to you then, my guess

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the very real scientific advancements of the Near Horizon of Longevity, you can see how very reasonable this theory actually is. To refresh your memory, longevity escape velocity proposes that life expectancy will continue to rise with advances in science and technology until each year of scientific research and technological development will add

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, how much more accurate, and how much more sophisticated this process of advancement will become with quantum computing, AGI, and the Law of Accelerating Returns, longevity escape velocity should not seem nearly as “kooky” as it did initially. Even if true escape velocity is never reached, it’s clear that technology is set

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body for signs of disease are improving by the year. Somewhere along the timeline between tomorrow and longevity escape velocity, you will be able to grow young with the aid of these astonishing new technologies. Whether longevity escape velocity and biological immortality are genuinely reachable or not, living to at least age one hundred is within

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-carb) cake!1 If you would like to stay alive longer, then my advice to you is to get and stay on the road to longevity escape velocity today. That is, stay as healthy as possible for as long as possible, until you are able to take advantage of the next horizon of

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Ritchie, “Life Expectancy,” Our World in Data, last modified October, 2019, https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy. 2Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler, “We are nearing ‘Longevity Escape Velocity’—where science can extend your life for more than a year for every year you are alive,” Market Watch, last modified February 25, 2020, https

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The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 28 Jan 2020 · 501pp · 114,888 words

the body’s ability to fight disease and heal itself. What does all this add up to? Well, Ray Kurzweil often discusses the concept of “longevity escape velocity,” or the point at which science can extend your life for more than a year for every year that you are alive. As far future

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you might expect. “It’s likely [that we’re] just another ten to twelve years away from the point that the general public will hit longevity escape velocity.” We are creeping ever closer to a technological fountain of youth. Thus, the impact that each of us can make with a couple more decades

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the immune system can’t find pathogens. And now that we know what’s killing us, let’s see what just might be saving us. Longevity Escape Velocity Want to win a Nobel Prize? Study worms. And don’t just study any worm. Study the roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, or, as her friends call

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years by 1950, then to seventy-two years by 2014. But these days, Ray Kurzweil and longevity expert Aubrey de Grey have begun talking about “longevity escape velocity,” or the idea that soon, science will be able to extend our lives by a year for every year we live. In other words, once

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-12-billion-valuation-2018-8. Celularity: See: https://www.celularity.com. placental-derived stem cells can extend life 30 to 40 percent: Hariri, author interview. “longevity escape velocity”: Ray Kurzweil, author interview, 2018. For a video, see: https://singularityhub.com/2017/11/10/3-dangerous-ideas-from-ray-kurzweil/. PART TWO: THE REBIRTH

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.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836174/, and CB Insights’ report on the future of aging, https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/future-aging-technology-startups/. Longevity Escape Velocity Caenorhabditis elegans, or, as her friends call her, C. elegans: For an overview of C. elegans’s role in the study of genetics, see: Claudiu

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://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy. Ray Kurzweil: Ray Kurzweil, author interview, 2018. See also this conversation between Peter and Ray where they discuss the concept of longevity escape velocity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=SaOfLtoaKqw. Aubrey de Grey: Kira Peikoff, “Anti-Aging Pioneer Aubrey de Grey: ‘People in Middle Age

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

by Ray Kurzweil · 25 Jun 2024

can use building materials pumped up from ground level in liquid form, will make this process far easier and less expensive. Diligent People Will Achieve Longevity Escape Velocity by Around 2030 Material abundance and peaceful democracy make life better, but the challenge with the highest stakes is the effort to preserve life itself

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sufficient to extend many lives long enough to reach the third bridge. And so, by around 2030, the most diligent and informed people will reach “longevity escape velocity”—a tipping point at which we can add more than a year to our remaining life expectancy for each calendar year that passes. The sands

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much more serious attention to finding out why. One of the leading researchers in this field is biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, founder of the LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity) foundation.[98] As de Grey explains, aging is like the wear on the engine of an automobile—it is damage that accumulates as a result

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least one year to your remaining life expectancy annually, that will buy enough time for nanomedicine to cure any remaining facets of aging. This is longevity escape velocity.[100] This is why there is sound logic behind Aubrey de Grey’s sensational declaration that the first person to live to 1,000 years

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year, medicine adds at least one additional year to our life expectancy, allowing people to get ahead of the curve, so to speak, and achieve “longevity escape velocity.” BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 110 Due to the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 is the most recent year for which good projected UK

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To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

by Mark O'Connell · 28 Feb 2017 · 252pp · 79,452 words

preserved. My ideal scenario is I stay healthy and take care of myself, and more funding goes into life extension research, and we actually achieve longevity escape velocity.” He was referring here to the scenario, projected by the life extension impresario Aubrey de Grey, a scientific advisor at Alcor, whereby for every year

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and dismissive newspaper articles. Among the ideas he had popularized (through, among other channels, a widely consumed 2005 TED talk) was something referred to as “longevity escape velocity.” This was the notion that the pace of technological advancement in the area of life extension would eventually increase to the point that, for every

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put it, “effectively eliminating the relationship between how old you are and how likely you are to die in the next year.” This idea of longevity escape velocity was something like an article of faith among transhumanists and life extension enthusiasts. It was an idea that Max More, for instance, had raised a

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optimistic, though some had been persuaded of the value of his claims. “SENS 2.0” was where things crossed over into sci-fi territory—the longevity escape velocity theory, essentially. “After those initial thirty years,” he said, “the same people are going to come back looking for further rejuvenation. And the therapies, by

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his pale face. “The twenty years I get from eating the way I do could be the difference between my dying and my getting to longevity escape velocity. I’m holding off on pleasure now so that I can have more pleasure later. I’m actually a total hedonist.” “You don’t seem

Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

by Stephen Cave · 2 Apr 2012 · 299pp · 98,943 words

another century—and so on, until the discovery is made that can grant us medical immortality. This is what the optimistic transhumanists describe as achieving “longevity escape velocity,” or living long enough to live forever. THE transhumanists have various strategies for breaking down the problems of mortality into manageable chunks. One prominent advocate

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not simply postponing death; it is the power of resurrection—bringing the dead back to life. After all, although some might hope to achieve the “longevity escape velocity” we met in chapter 3, many will recognize that there is a good chance that nature will get them before science has completed its conquering

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live forever and we will not. No: we will all die, even the transhumanists. The difference is that they tell themselves a story about achieving “longevity escape velocity,” which helps them to alleviate their existential angst. They are therefore following a long tradition of elixir seekers, resurrectionists, reincarnationists and others who have attempted

An Optimist's Tour of the Future

by Mark Stevenson · 4 Dec 2010 · 379pp · 108,129 words

answers to these last two questions could respectively be ‘a very long time’ and ‘as much as you like.’ Take, for instance, the idea of ‘longevity escape velocity,’ seen by many transhumanists as one of the more convincing arguments for the prospect of immortality. This is the proposition that instead of our life

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More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words

, but he declined to be interviewed for this book.) That hasn’t discouraged him. “We’re going to get to a point where we have longevity ‘escape velocity,’” he said at South by Southwest in 2024. “By 2029, if you’re diligent, you’ll use up a year of your longevity with the

Immortality, Inc.

by Chip Walter · 7 Jan 2020 · 232pp · 72,483 words

to 300 until still more came, and so forth. Somewhere along the line, the really Big Breakthroughs would reverse aging altogether. He called this theory “longevity escape velocity.” You would die, of course, eventually, because statistically something was going to get you: a bolt of lightning, abduction by aliens, a spouse who simply

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who thought outside the box could get a shot at being heard and debated. That’s what science needed. Maybe de Grey’s prescriptions for longevity escape velocity or engineered negligible senescence made sense; maybe they didn’t. But that wasn’t the point. The point was to do the experiment! Soon enough

Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old

by Andrew Steele · 24 Dec 2020 · 399pp · 118,576 words

, that could continue to be true into the indefinite future – and it would be a de facto cure for ageing. This idea is sometimes called ‘longevity escape velocity’. Whether a one-year-per-year increase in life expectancy is possible in a time frame which might be relevant to humans alive today is

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Architects of Intelligence

by Martin Ford · 16 Nov 2018 · 586pp · 186,548 words

a presentation you gave at MIT last year where you said that within 10 years, most people might be able to achieve what you call “longevity escape velocity,” and you also said that you think you personally might have achieved that already? Do you really believe it could happen that soon? RAY KURZWEIL

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remission. Medicine is going to be profoundly different in a decade from now. If you’re diligent, I believe you will be able to achieve longevity escape velocity, which means that we’ll be adding more time than is going by, not just to infant life expectancy but to your remaining life expectancy