Elon Musk points worrying prediction about ‘residing endlessly’ as he says reverse ageing ‘is extremely doubtless’

Elon Musk has given his ideas on whether or not people will have the ability to lengthen their lives indefinitely.

On Thursday (22 January), Musk was talking on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, the place President Donald Trump delivered an replace on Greenland and issued a U-turn on future tariff plans simply hours later.

“I heard concerning the formation of the Peace Summit, and I believed is that piece or… somewhat piece of Greenland, somewhat piece of Venezuela,” the previous DOGE head stated of the US president’s plans.

Away from politics, nevertheless, Musk started talking about the way forward for humanity and defined why he thinks it’s ‘extremely doubtless’ that people will determine tips on how to lengthen life throughout a dialog with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, although reverse ageing isn’t one thing that the Tesla CEO has put plenty of thought into determining himself.

“I haven’t put a lot time into ageing stuff. I do suppose it’s a very solvable downside after we determine what causes ageing, I feel we’ll discover it’s extremely apparent, not a delicate factor,” he stated.

“The rationale why I say it’s not a delicate factor is that each one the cells in your physique just about age on the similar price, I’ve by no means seen somebody with an previous left arm and a younger proper arm, so why is that?

“Meaning there have to be a clock, a synchronising clock, that’s synchronising throughout 35 trillion cells in your physique.”

Regardless of his optimism, Musk prompt that demise is vital for society ‘as a result of if individuals do dwell endlessly or a really very long time then I feel there may be some danger of an ossification of society, of issues getting locked in place’.

“It could change into stultifying, missing vibrancy,” he continued. “That stated, do I feel we’ll determine methods to increase life and perhaps even reverse ageing – I feel that’s extremely doubtless.”

Nicely, one man is attempting to realize ‘immortality’ within the subsequent 15 years.

Bryan Johnson spends about $2 million (£1.4 million) a 12 months to ‘keep younger’ endlessly, as he is gone so far as injecting himself together with his teenage son’s blood, in addition to his five-hour ‘longevity routine’.

“We presently have no idea how 2039 immortality will likely be achieved. There are new, promising therapies that may flip again the clock many years, however they’re buggy,” he stated on X.

“Typically they mistakenly trigger most cancers. We gotta repair that. However we all know immortality is feasible as a result of nature has already solved it.

“This isn’t a physics downside like attempting to journey sooner than the pace of sunshine, it’s a organic engineering downside that evolution has cracked a number of occasions.”

“That is what I’ve been doing for six years,” he stated of biohacking, including: “As crude as longevity know-how is immediately, the enhancements I’ve personally seen are beautiful.”