{"id":91961,"date":"2019-06-12T04:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/are-humans-really-on-the-brink-of-achieving-immortality"},"modified":"2019-06-12T04:02:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:02:35","slug":"are-humans-really-on-the-brink-of-achieving-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/are-humans-really-on-the-brink-of-achieving-immortality","title":{"rendered":"Are Humans Really On The Brink Of Achieving Immortality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2URf46UY7-A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week, UK-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurizon.com\/\">futurologist Ian Pearson<\/a> announced humanity will achieve immortality by the year 2050. Is he right?<\/p>\n<p>According to the former <a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/ian.pearson\">rocket scientist and IT engineer<\/a> \u2013 who claims to have an 85 percent success rate \u201cwhen looking 10\u201315 years ahead\u201d \u2013 recent advances in biomedical and computing technology will inevitably lead to victory over death via one of three means:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/technology\/are-humans-really-on-the-brink-of-achieving-immortality\/all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, UK-based futurologist Ian Pearson announced humanity will achieve immortality by the year 2050. Is he right? According to the former rocket scientist and IT engineer \u2013 who claims to have an 85 percent success rate \u201cwhen looking 10\u201315 years ahead\u201d \u2013 recent advances in biomedical and computing technology will inevitably lead to victory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91961","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}