"Every minute that you spend reading this article, the average life expectancy in Britain will rise by 12 seconds. By the time you finish reading, your life expectancy will have gone up by six minutes. This time tomorrow, it will have increased by almost five hours. The reason is clear: Rapid advances in medicine and biology have been one of the biggest achievements of the past century and we are all living longer. Where anyone reaching the age of 60 was considered to be near death's door at the turn of the 20th century, it was barely old enough for retirement at the turn of the 21st century."
"And scientists are still not holding back. Shripad Tuljapurkar, a population studies expert at Stanford University, told a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that, as new anti-ageing treatments become available, our species will get even older. Soon, the average age of death will jump by a year every year - five times the current rate."
The barriers that prevent you from living forever are diseases, accidents, and aging, but science is advancing against all three. If medical research progress continues at its present rate, trends in discoveries project ahead that we will conquer 95% of today's ten leading causes of death by 2030, half of all diseases by 2050, and most diseases by 2080. This will raise life expectancy to 130-150 years. But there also is progress against aging. With that, the sky is the limit! Watch our progress by clicking on the Progress Against Diseases and Progress Toward Control of Aging pages below.