• Question: Can we live forever?

    Asked by anon-208278 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 12 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Gill Harrison

      Gill Harrison answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      Not at the moment…but with scientific developments who knows 🤔

    • Photo: Stuart Higgins

      Stuart Higgins answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      Not at the moment, and scientists are still quite puzzled about why our bodies get worse as we get older. But science, medicine and technology have already helped a lot – if you had been born in 1841, the average life expectancy was about 41 years old. Thanks to modern technology we can now live a lot longer.

    • Photo: Hannah Dalgleish

      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      Yuval Noah Harari wrote about this in his book, Homo Deus. His books are quite amazing and very controversial – I definitely recommend. Having read his other book Homo Sapiens, I would now disagree with what Stuart says in a way – the life expectancy for hunter gathers was actually quite high (about the same as it is today). The working and living conditions during the agricultural and industrial revolutions were so poor that people died much younger.
      Here’s an article about it: https://www.sitra.fi/en/news/yuval-noah-harari-better-understand-happening-make-minds-makes-minds-us/

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