Our likely hood of immortality increases when we are able to separate ourselves from the limitations of our biology.
I'm not saying we can't become biologically immortal of course, it just seems to present a far more difficult challenge then to say augmenting ourselves with our technology or uploading our conciousness into some form of computer network.
The fact that we live in a time where I can say that at all is incredible.
Will we see the advent and execution of this in our lifetime? Possibly. Will we see the beginnings of it? Almost certainly.
We already have, in a way. Medical technology and computational technology are the two quickest advancing forms of enterprise that exist today.
We now have computers that can beat the Worlds best Go players, we now have machines that can print from cells fully functioning human organs. We are coming into an age where age, and by an extension, death, may stop being considered a part of life and start being considered as a condition or disease - one we can treat.
But what happens when nobody dies, especially if it's in a physical sense and not a purely etheric sense as it would be if we were to upload our consciousness? What do we do about the continuous increase in the population? How do we deal with individuals who maybe want to die? Does it become a matter of social class, where the wealthy live forever and the poor continue to die?
It's an interesting horizon we're sailing towards, thats for sure. Nothing like our time, as far as we know, has ever been seen or experienced by any other human before us. So not only do we become the first to see its benefit, we become the first to see its potential danger, too.
Nice write up, looking forward to more!