SAN FRANCISCO: Scientists have found the mechanisms that govern aging and are already doing experiments in rats on how to reverse it. They’ve found species that do not die of old age, such as the jellyfish Turritopsis.
“We’re adding three months to life per calendar year,” said Salim Ismail, former innovation director at Yahoo and founding executive chairman of Singularity University. “It’s not an if, it’s a when, and the point in time is in the 15- to 20-year range,” said Ismail, speaking at the Exponential Finance conference in New York City on Wednesday.
“In a decade or two, or three, there will be a class of people taking treatments who can live for a long time, and that affects employment planning, retirement planning … Society will never have seen that before,” Ismail said…