Longevity Technology

Extending healthy and capable years may preserve independence, productivity, and quality of life. The article expects many small companies to add 5, 10, or 15 years to human life. The view that longevity merely adds frail years to old age is described as outdated. The article compares longevity technology today to the internet in 1993, before rapid acceleration. AI and longevity are portrayed as being in an early stage comparable to the pre-boom internet era. Longer lifespans would make attention protection more important because algorithmic distraction would waste more valuable time. Longevity interventions would be ethically and practically problematic if they only increased years of severe frailty. Longevity technology is framed as extending healthy, functional years rather than prolonging dependency at the end of life.