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| Jan 20, 2016 at 9:24 | comment | added | phresnel | @corsiKa: Yes, not because it's natural, but driven exactly to that by research and economy. There were/are times where Moore's Law could have been beaten, and times in which not. Moore's law and the keeping-up of its validity is human driven, not driven by nature. It would be strange otherwise, if you think about it. See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… . Likewise, life spans have always increased and decreased. And even if we became highlanders, with growing age grows the probability to have a deadly accident/illness. | |
| Jan 19, 2016 at 18:26 | comment | added | corsiKa | @phresnel They said Moore's law would have diminishing returns too, 50 years later it's still going strong. | |
| Jan 19, 2016 at 13:32 | comment | added | phresnel | @corsiKa: Nature is almost never linear, though. | |
| Jan 19, 2016 at 12:05 | comment | added | Max Williams | The current increasing of lifespan is really about keeping old people alive for longer: it doesn't tackle aging as such. However, i do think that genetic research is likely to "cure" aging within the next 100 years. | |
| Jan 18, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | corsiKa | Given our current rate of increasing lifespan, it's only a matter of time until we've solved that pesky death problem too. | |
| Jan 18, 2016 at 18:39 | history | answered | AndyD273 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |