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How Can I Live Forever?

The first stage is one we are currently living through. Medicine and therapies are improving all the time. In 2013 drugs were developed to deal with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and medicines are expected to be developed to ensure no-one dies from most cancers within a decade.

Stem Cell research and Biotechnology breakthroughs will see the replacement of vital human organs. Also in 2013, scientists began building a mouse kidney from synthetic materials. This will lead to the replacement of organs in healthy humans as a form of pre-emptive medicine.

There is a really useful elaboration of this in the article below.
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Regular body scans will reveal health problems that will allow a general practitioner to provide a cocktail injection of drugs to deal with pre-emptive issues and repair any damage by propelling protein molecules into the system. The chemical reaction that is created will prompt the body's natural defences to react more quickly

Improvements of Nanotechnology and Artificial Intelligence will see miniscule Nanorobots circling the body to replace damaged cells and ensuring bodies remain healthy, fit and youthful. Chromosome replacement therapy will become commonplace. As ageing is the degeneration of cells, this will also be prevented.

You can read more about how this will work here.
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During the transition period between now and healthy regenerative bodies, Nanotube Bio-transistors will allow for prosthetics to connect via wiring directly to the nervous system. This will enable, not just people with prosthetics, but replacement limbs (not too dissimilar to the Six Million Dollar Man), to become an acceptable part of a human’s body

This is better explained in this New Scientist article.
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The quote on the right is from "When Death Becomes Optional," which was written by Google's top-rated Futurist, Thomas Frey, in a 2013 article.
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"The year is 2032. You have just celebrated your 80th birthday and you have some tough decisions ahead. You can keep repairing your current body or move into a new one. The growing of 'blank' bodies has become all the rage, and by using your own genetic material, body farmers can even recreate your own face at age 20."

A translator chip has already been invented. This will enable thoughts to be transmitted via the internet. The brain implant will convert thoughts into synthesized words. 
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With all of those processes relating to the body, another step in the Live Forever process will be the replication of the brain. 
Now, this may sound like science fiction now, but scientists are not only at the stage of their research that indicates that it is possible, but they believe they are on the cusp of a breakthrough in building a simulated mind that could include self-consciousness. 

It is expected that within thirty years computers will be ahead of human intelligence which will inevitably lead to human interfaces and their incorporation in the human brain. This will also allow the transfer of consciousness and memory. This will clearly mean that human beings will be able to use synthetic or even android bodies. 
The conclusion to this is that it is believed that the first person to live for a thousand years has already been born.
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Respected futurist Ray Kurzweil examines the next stages in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine. The author considers the start of a new civilization where we will be able to overcome our biological limitations and combine those biological skills with technology. He believes ageing and illness will be reversed and there will be no obvious distinction between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality. 
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The Singularity is Near

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