People talk about the singularity and GCP Grey has that new video with the parable of the dragon, but I think before we can really tackle longevity, we need to first address resource scarcity.
Humanity needs to fundamentally change the way it consumes goods if we want to sustain populations that cannot die. There is also the question as to who would get such treatments? The rich? Everyone?
Kim Stanley Robin's book Red Mars deals with a lot of these issues in a fiction future where human colonize mars. It's a really good book.
I don't think it's a matter of resource scarcity but rather the incentives. If you only need to beat your competition to make a profit, then most incremental progress will come in the form of reinventing a slightly better wheel. Likewise, incentives to mass-market more advanced things are not going to be strong.
Doesn't mean it can't be done, but it's hard to change an economic system that is embedded into our culture.
Humanity needs to fundamentally change the way it consumes goods if we want to sustain populations that cannot die. There is also the question as to who would get such treatments? The rich? Everyone?
Kim Stanley Robin's book Red Mars deals with a lot of these issues in a fiction future where human colonize mars. It's a really good book.