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I'm hoping medical science will evolve to keep me alive until I'm a few hundred years old

What do you guys think the average life expectancy will be in 50 years?
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i don't think it'll be that much more, but then what do i know!
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I'm hoping medical science will evolve to keep me alive until I'm a few hundred years old
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What do you guys think the average life expectancy will be in 50 years?
We'll probably all be scrabbling to keep body & soul together at the rate things are going!

If I'm still here I'll let you know!
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As medical science is evolving seems to me chance to live 125 +
Insurance and retirement benefits company watch out

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I presume you mean in Britain Adi, in which case 75 is probably a good figure, but worldwide the average life expectancy seems unlikely to exceed 60 for a long time yet.

Thinking of how much the world has altered since our generation were born, predicting anything more than a decade ahead is fraught with difficulty!
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Yes, sorry, I was thinking of Britain/US/Developed World rather than a global average.
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I'll go with 75-90 in the developed world; but there is a caveat. If certain countries start to really explore the possibilities of stem cell research the number could be significantly higher in 50 years (possibly your 126+). The developing world will still lag severely behind, but will probably break 60 within the timeframe (even without radical research).
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I voted 76-90 (with the UK in mind).

I would expect any increases in life expectancy to be relatively gradual.

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Well according to Aubrey de Grey:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm

we'll be heading for 1,000.

But I don't think that we'll have got there in 50 years. Over a hundred though, unless any of the imminent global catastrophies get in the way...
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God help us if people start living to 125 years of age. We have enough people on this planet as it is without that happening
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