[baltcode]

This is incredibly naive, IMHO.

So far the ubiquity of computing power has not had a measurable effect on the mechanisms of aging. Yes, we've made some progress on specific disorders and pathogenic diseases by designing and screening active molecules but it is tangential to the various ways we age.

The gene therapy ideas are similarly in early ages, and if we start hacking away at the various aging mechanisms, it will be well after 2029. Additionally, there are complicated long term effects on tinkering with our machinery. The fact that aging as a natural phenotype is not very diverse means it is pretty complicated. We don't have humans who naturally live to be 200 years old. for example.

[orangecat]

Have we been trying? SENS isn't exactly swimming in money and Calico and other ventures are too new to expect results yet. 2029 is probably optimistic, but there's going to be some very motivated tech billionaires in the next decade, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/3ocsbi/ama_my_n....