In the next 10 years, human beings will be able to live forever. Are scientists reliable?

In the Spanish magazine Fun, scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology published an article about the scientific and technological changes of human beings in the next 10 year, arguing that human beings will probably achieve "eternal life" in the next 10 year, and both artificial intelligence and space exploration will achieve a qualitative leap in the next 10 year.

Will human beings "live forever" in the future 10 year?

It can be said that the scientist Jose Luis louis cole Cordeiro's imagination of the future 10 years is equivalent to turning all the imagination of scientists on the future human beings in the past decades into "reality". For example, about 50 years ago, many scientists thought that humans could immigrate to Mars soon after entering 2 1 century.

At the same time, at the beginning of this century, some researchers believed that before 2045, human beings could achieve "eternal life". Of course, from the perspective of science fiction writers, these things that humans have not realized have already become a reality in advance in their works.

For example, The Outline of the Future, written by British writer arthur clarke, mentioned such things as space immigration, super artificial intelligence occupying the earth, and human beings realizing eternal life. At that time, mankind had just entered space, and many countries except the United States and the former Soviet Union did not even have the ability to launch satellites. At the same time, the research and development of artificial intelligence has not yet begun. It can be said that this science fiction writer's thinking is very advanced.

However, can human beings really live forever? In recent years, many researchers believe that as long as we understand "telomerase", we can achieve "eternal life" by preventing it from shortening. In addition, in the study of many terrestrial creatures, scientists also found that there really seem to be animals that can "live forever" on the earth, such as lighthouse jellyfish and corals.

Although these "immortal" species are still controversial from a biological point of view, there are indeed creatures that can survive for thousands of years, which makes researchers realize that "immortality" may be feasible.

Especially now, with the development of science, some researchers even think that human beings can achieve "eternal life" in 2029. However, judging from the current human environment, if human beings really do this in the future, it may not be a good thing for human beings, but it is the beginning of "extinction".

Why not suggest that human beings "live forever"?

Since ancient times, human beings have been longing for "immortality", especially emperors, who want to be "emperors" forever. Therefore, with the growth of age, many Ming emperors were fascinated by alchemy, such as Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi and Emperor Taizong.

In modern times, with the development of human science such as medicine, the life span of human beings has indeed been greatly extended, but it is not enough for human beings. Because, as mentioned above, in the next 10 years, in addition to finding ways to live forever, human beings also hope to go further, that is to say, if they want to go further in the universe, they need to make their life longer.

However, immortality is not necessarily a good thing for human beings. The first is the resource problem on the earth. Now, the earth is in the age of population explosion, and the environment of the earth is in crisis because of population growth. In the face of limited earth resources, if human beings achieve eternal life, it means that the population will only increase, and soon, human beings will think that resources are completely exhausted and can no longer continue their civilization.

Secondly, human beings have achieved immortality through artificial means, which actually violates the laws of nature. Perhaps from the perspective of life evolution, it is wrong in itself. As the old saying goes, "Destiny cannot be violated". Instead of looking for immortality, in fact, human beings should find ways to prolong their life as much as possible, or find ways to maintain life during long-distance space flights. This is the right solution.

Of course, from the perspective of scientific development, human beings may really create miracles. For example, in the future, nano-robots can be invented to replace doctors for surgery, or human beings have successfully figured out "telomerase" and there are ways to achieve eternal life through "telomerase". Naturally, in the future, when the life span of human beings is extended by 10 times or more, human beings will have more time to develop science and technology and have a way to leave the earth.

But judging from the researchers' imagination of the future development of 10, there is actually a potential threat to human beings, that is, whether human beings should develop super artificial intelligence.

Now the "weak level" of artificial intelligence has scared human beings. When the super artificial intelligence in future science fiction films is born, can humans really control them? There is still no answer to this question. What do you think?