Bryan Johnson· Author
right now is maybe the first time in the history of homo sapiens where somebody could say with a straight face death may not be inevitable
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right now is maybe the first time in the history of homo sapiens where somebody could say with a straight face death may not be inevitable
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if the future could talk to us what they might say is that we have reached a point of technological and medical progress where death is no longer inevitable or at least we might be able to radically extend how long and how well we live
I think the 25th Century might say is that for the first time in human history death May no longer be inevitable now that does not mean immortality it means that we have a horizon of extending our health spans and lifespans to degrees that are previously unimaginable to us in this moment
this is the moment where homo sapan said we are transitioning from Death being inevitable to having some Horizon of extending our lifespan
One of the major principles I will discuss in "Lifespan" is that longer human lives (healthy ones!) are all but inevitable.