The speaker argues 2026 could be humanity's Wright brothers moment for age reversal, when we discover aging is reversible. Whales live over 200 years, proving extreme lifespans are biologically possible. Like early skeptics of flight, people dismiss longevity science today, but breakthroughs could cascade rapidly once the first one lands.
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Maybe 2026 is the year we learned that age reversal is possible in humans. I, I always talk about the Wright brothers because this feels like another Wright brothers moment. The Wright brothers, people said it wouldn't work, this will never happen. New York Times, a few weeks before Wright brothers took off, said it'll be a million years before humans fly, and then they did it. 20 years ago, I didn't know if it was going to happen in our lifetimes. I was trying to go as fast as possible and trying to get the word out to, to raise awareness and bring in really bright students into the field. And now I think the wave is such that it's going to happen in our lifetime. That, that's something that would be crazy if it didn't. There is no law that says we have to age. That anyone who says that there is a limit doesn't know what they're talking about. Uh, and there are lots of species that live longer than us, even whales, which are not too dissimilar from us, and they can live over 200 years. It's doable, right? We can live hundreds of years. That's already happening in the animal world. Can we go beyond that? Can we go beyond a whale even? Often I'm quoted out of context saying, "Oh, we can live forever," or that kind of thing. I'm not saying that, but I am saying that the mere fact that the Wright brothers could fly, we could see that one day there would be the Concorde jet and going to the moon. The same with longevity. Yes. Once you can fly, everything changes, and I think we're about to learn whether we can fly or not. I'm pretty sure we can.
