[Popular Mechanics] What would life look like if you could live forever? Would you be able to eat and drink whatever you’d like, take pleasure in risky activities like smoking without consequence for hundreds of years, your body staving off disease at every corner? Or maybe you’d have to commit to a lifetime of supplements, a "perfect" diet, and a workout regime fit for an Olympian. Weirder still, there’s a chance you could live life with your own mind intact, but have to accept a new kind of body.
Humankind has been searching for an elixir of life for thousands of years, with tales of the hunt for immortality stretching back farther in time than even the first books of the Bible. And it seems like we’ll accept the secret to living forever in whatever flavor we can get it in.
With the new Popular Mechanics video series How to Live Forever, or Die Trying, we reached out to scientists and anti-aging gurus worldwide to give you an insight into the continuous pursuit of a future without death. From gene therapies that could tune our cells to resist—and even reverse—aging to sci-fi-like efforts to freeze our bodies and upload our minds to computers, the biological and technological race to live forever is very much underway. |