{"id":102778,"date":"2020-02-24T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T00:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/we-are-nearing-longevity-escape-velocity-where-science-can-extend-your-life-for-more-than-a-year-for-every-year-you-are-alive"},"modified":"2020-02-24T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T00:02:19","slug":"we-are-nearing-longevity-escape-velocity-where-science-can-extend-your-life-for-more-than-a-year-for-every-year-you-are-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/we-are-nearing-longevity-escape-velocity-where-science-can-extend-your-life-for-more-than-a-year-for-every-year-you-are-alive","title":{"rendered":"We are nearing \u2018longevity escape velocity\u2019 \u2014 where science can extend your life for more than a year for every year you are alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-are-nearing-longevity-escape-velocity-where-science-can-extend-your-life-for-more-than-a-year-for-every-year-you-are-alive2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe possibility that 100 years old might become the new 60\u201d : EXCELLENT SLOGAN that doesn\u2019t resort to the troublesome\u201d I word\u201d (\u201cImmortality\u201d)! Good article to share with non-science friends: light on hard science, but good emotional impact, incl. that catchy slogan.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Technology hasn\u2019t just improved our lives; it\u2019s also extended them \u2014 considerably.<\/p>\n<p>For most of history, humans lived about 25 years. Real acceleration emerged at the turn of the 20th century, when everything from the creation of antibiotics to the implementation of better sanitation to the increased availability of clean water, and the ability to tackle killers like cancer and heart disease has us living routinely into our 80s. But many scientists believe we\u2019re not stopping there.<\/p>\n<p>Technological convergence is fueling this conviction. The intersection of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, networks, sensors, robotics, massive datasets, biotechnology and nanotechnology is taking direct aim at the limits of human lifespan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe possibility that 100 years old might become the new 60\u201d : EXCELLENT SLOGAN that doesn\u2019t resort to the troublesome\u201d I word\u201d (\u201cImmortality\u201d)! Good article to share with non-science friends: light on hard science, but good emotional impact, incl. that catchy slogan. Technology hasn\u2019t just improved our lives; it\u2019s also extended them \u2014 considerably. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,4,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}