Scientists revealed when people will be able to live for 1000 years

Humanity stands on the threshold of an incredible breakthrough in life expectancy. Leading experts in technology and biomedicine claim that the possibility of living an entire millennium may become a reality in the foreseeable future, reports the Daily Mail.

Outstanding minds of our time - British futurist Dr. Ian Pearson, former Google engineer Ray Kurzweil, and biomedical researcher Aubrey de Grey - have presented their predictions about when humanity will be able to overcome the barrier of a thousand-year life. Despite differences in approaches, they all agree: the era of "practical immortality" will come much earlier than many can imagine.

According to Pearson's forecasts, by 2050, the wealthiest segments of the population will be able to reach the millennium mark thanks to a revolutionary combination of genetic engineering, robotics, and digital consciousness transfer. "The human mind can be uploaded either into an android body or into virtual reality," the futurist claims. Notably, although initially such technologies will only be available to the elite, by the 2060s they will become a reality for the middle class as well.

Pearson also emphasizes that future medicine will revolutionize the fight against aging, allowing not only to prevent but also to reverse age-related changes at the cellular level. Diseases that are considered fatal today, such as cancer and cardiovascular pathologies, will be diagnosed and treated even before the first symptoms appear.

Ray Kurzweil, known for his strikingly accurate technological predictions, puts forward an even bolder theory. In his opinion, by 2029, artificial intelligence will reach the level of human intelligence, which will mark the beginning of the "Singularity" era. And by 2045, there will be a complete merger of human and machine, which will "open the path to immortality."

"AI will make basic life necessities - food, housing - much more accessible, and brain-computer interfaces, like Elon Musk's Neuralink, will allow consciousness to connect directly to the data cloud," Kurzweil predicts. As a result of this merger, human intelligence will increase millions of times, and personality can be copied and transferred to new bodies.

Aubrey de Grey, who specializes in gerontology, looks at the problem from a medical perspective. He is convinced that the achievements of 21st-century medicine can turn aging into a reversible process. According to his predictions, by 2050, old age will be perceived as a common disease that can be diagnosed and successfully treated.