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by return1 2120 days ago
Did people say that 20 years ago?
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Yes we did. I was on transhumanist mailing lists twenty years ago and the exact same comments were being made then as are in this thread today
Lol. I seem to recall seeing a comic strip once, where a young, a middle-aged, and an old man were asked when anti-aging treatments would arrive. Their answers were respectively: fifty years, ten years–and this afternoon!
Same situation like with nuclear fusion, I guess.