Google investment partner thinks we’ll all live to 500

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Medical technology is advancing so fast, that a partner in Google’s investment department believes that as long as we can live for another 20-30 years, we’ll be able to make it to the ripe old age of 500 without too much difficulty. His reasoning? The ultra fast development of new medical technology, some of which he believes, will make current techniques and procedures look rudimentary within just a few years.
 

“If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes,”

 

said the venture capitalist and Google investor, Bill Marris, who is sitting on a near half billion dollar fund that he’s looking to invest on behalf of Google’s venture capital branch. 
 

Although Google has a vested interest in healthcare and brought Maris on to help spearhead development in that area of science, his interest goes far further than that. He’s a trained neuroscientist with experience working in a biomedical lab at Duke University and he thinks that the next 20 years are going to see us break through into whole new regions of medicine that will reshape the world entirely.
 

Twenty years ago, without genomics, you could only treat cancer with a poison,That’s really different from, We can cure your cancer by reverse-engineering a stem cell. You can now legitimately invest in a company that could cure cancer,

 

 

Considering this guy is 40 years old, he must be doing something right
 

Indeed Google has investments in nearly 300 startups and will put another $425 million into new and existing partners this year alone, making it one of the biggest investment firms in the world. As has been pointed out though, it’s not doing it for the money, but for an insight into where the world of bio-mechanical technology is going. Maris believes that we’re moving towards a world of nanobots and customised medicine, whereby treatment is personalised to you as the patient, rather than the catchall prescription approach we use today.
 

Google wants to do more than just fund this development though, it wants to help the startups of today and tomorrow develop their products. In its partnership with some fitness application companies, Google helps streamline the technology and make it more user friendly, which in turn helps improve uptake and the amount of time people stick with the software.
 

The plan for now is to keep pushing the boundaries of what Google and its partners can achieve. And of course, last long enough to see it.
 

“We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision, I just hope to live long enough not to die.”

 

if google hypothetically had a way to do this and in the process needs to know everything about you there is and ever will be to live for 500 years, will you be taking the offer ?

Source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/11460343/Google-thinks-well-live-to-be-500-years-old.html
 

[Pugs501]

uhhh How about no

[-TesseracT-]

I'm glad I'm young so I might get to experience this.

[Tedster]

I'm glad I'm young so I might get to experience this.

I'm glad I'm younger than you, so my chances are even greater (:

 

I think that this is interesting, but if we manage to develop medical technology to this degree, the majority of deaths in the world would be suicides.

[SuperPug]

Terrible idea...

[That Norwegian Guy]

So I could be 55 for 500 years? Uh, I'll take my chances with the worms.

[Paralectic]

I don't want to live for 500 years, heck not even for 100.

[SeanAngelo]

if my parents could live to 500, then yes.

 

but only me, no.

[Syntaxvgm]

Will we also have green hair and stupid names? Because I don't want green hair or a stupid name. 

[OlekKing]

I don't want to live for 500 years, heck not even for 100.

Good for you.

If they can make me live 500 years without me turning into a wrinkled vegetable, then i don't see why not.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

 

Will we also have green hair and stupid names? Because I don't want green hair or a stupid name. 

why do you think humans will turn into anime in 500 years ? /s

[alexyy]

Sounds like a great idea but I'd miss my parents way too much.

[Dezz]

I'm glad I'm younger than you, so my chances are even greater (:

 

I think that this is interesting, but if we manage to develop medical technology to this degree, the majority of deaths in the world would be suicides.

There would be great overpopulation.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

why do you think humans will turn into anime in 500 years ? /s

  Because Anastasiya Shpagina

 

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

  Because Anastasiya Shpagina

 

because that's what i needed to see today 

[Ace Lean]

if my parents could live to 500, then yes.

 

but only me, no.

You are going to grow up one day and lose those closest to you no matter what. It's about enjoying the here and the now.

[Trik'Stari]

I hope he's right.

 

I want immortality damnit.

 

You are going to grow up one day and lose those closest to you no matter what. It's about enjoying the here and the now.

 

Don't care, want my space ship and my lightsaber.

[qwertywarrior]

Living for 500 years?

I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy

[cluelessgenius]

well i guess id do it. i mean its not like i have something to hide so i dont really care let them gather my f*pping habits if it helps them to cure me from my probable future loung cancer im fine with it also its not like youre forced to go till 500 you can always quite like a coward

[ACatWithThumbs]

The real question with medical advances is how to handle overpopulation.

Unless we'll start getting resources from space and starting expanding humanity beyond earth I see this getting a huge problem as we simply won't be able to handle 2-4x the amount of people which would come from this.

One solution would be to make it expensive but at that point the rich would live for centuries while the poor die off.(Kind of reminds me of the movie In Time)

And how do we handle the psychological side of this ?

Do we make dying centers where people that don't want to live anymore can kill them selves because I don't think many people will handle a life that long and you also don't want all the people to kill them selves.

[kpreg]

elite dangerous can give Google valuable ideas

Like, can I please hope in an asp and travel 160+ ly away irl and never worry about there being enough space? Overpopulation is a very valid arguement here.

[Suika]

I hope he's right.

I want immortality damnit.

Immortality is a cruel, cruel mistress.

When humanity is gone, the world in rubble, you will look up at the Sun, a ticking time bomb that will only worsen your suffering, not cease it.

However living to 500 sounds p cool. The true sense of immortality in this world doesn't.

[Trik'Stari]

Immortality is a cruel, cruel mistress.

When humanity is gone, the world in rubble, you will look up at the Sun, a ticking time bomb that will only worsen your suffering, not cease it.

However living to 500 sounds p cool. The true sense of immortality in this world doesn't.

I'd be fine with it. The idea of being one of the few or last humans on the planet is actually kind of interesting.

[zacRupnow]

There would be great overpopulation.

Good, then we can finally move off-planet. 

[Thony]

From let's say 70 average all the way to 500 ?

Unless we make the healing table from elyssium I call : Bullshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit