さっきワイヤード読んでて非常に呆れましたが。本文最後にコピー＆ペーストしてあります。みなさん、イントロレベルでいいですので、普通のセルバイオロジー勉強しましょうね。ホントに。
でもファンシーリビングとか言ってますが、あたしがもしあと１００年なにかしなきゃいけないとなるとやる気失せますけどねぇ。絶望の淵っていうんですかよく分かりませんが、たとえば谷底があったとしてそれがさらに深る感じ。そして太宰の言う自殺者の森のキャパシティ超えます。
今でも世界の平均寿命って７０年くらいっていいますよね？十分長いと思いますけどね。アメリカの実業家が得意げにEarly Retiringとかいって早くに成功を目指しているの見るとQOLって何？という根本的な疑問が普通に浮かびますよね。いやぁたしかに一生アクセク働くよりは良さそうな気配ありますけどね。確かに。
あたしはどうしたいかなぁ。確かにお金がいっぱいあって気ままに過ごすのは良さそうだけど、でも多分、微妙にお金があるけどもうちょっと欲しいくらいの、じゃあ頑張ろうっていう何かモティベイトしてくれる状態とでもいうのか、そういう「腹八分」な感じの人生が実はあたしはいいのかも。それにしても「腹八分」だなんて昔の人はいいこと言うなぁ。偉いなぁ。いや、でもお金はいいですね。別にいらないっていってるわけじゃないです。念のため。ていうか、お金欲しいです。そしたら〜、パワーブック買って〜、あ、ドイツの友達に会いにいって〜、あ、チュニジアの料理はおいしいって話なのでチュニジアにも行ってみたいし〜、ああ、そうだ、欲しかったジーンズ（高い、でも$120くらい）も買えるし〜、と、だんだんバカっぽくなってきたので（もともとバカっぽい話ではありますけど）やめます。だいたいどういう話だったんだっけ、ということで以下が引用本文です。
Story location: WIRED
11:06 AM Jul. 20, 2003 PT
SAN FRANCISCO
Fancy living another 100 years, or more? Some experts said on Saturday that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last decades beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.
“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality,” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that’s a conservative estimate.”
Zey spoke on the sidelines of the annual conference of the World Future Society, a group that ponders how the future will look across many different aspects of society.
In a presentation at the meeting in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in manipulating cells and genes as well as nanotechnology make it likely humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past.
“What was science fiction a decade ago is no longer science fiction,” he said.
“There is a dramatic and intensive push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”
Outside the conference, many scientists who specialize in aging are skeptical of such claims and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and other organs will eventually condemn all humans.
“These people spout off as though a large part of the population is going to be able to do something like this. It’s just way beyond reality,” said Thomas Perls, who leads the New England Centenarian Study, the largest such analysis of the oldest of the old. “It’s just pure science fiction.”
“We are fast approaching what our bodies are capable of achieving,” he said in a telephone interview. “To get even the average person to be 100 or to get them to 180 is like trying to get a space shuttle to Pluto.”
Any dramatic extension of the human life span would depend on altering the onset of disabilities that accompany the aging process by changing one’s genetic make up, said Harvey Cohen, director of the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke University Medical Center.
“It’s certainly unlikely any time in the near future,” he said in an interview. “Sure there is a possibility but there is no data currently available to suggest ways that would happen.”
Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live.
“It remains to be seen if you pass the threshold of say 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Center. “Currently people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”
Poon, who leads a study of more than 150 centenarians in Georgia, cited the case of Jeanne Louise Calment of France, the oldest person on record who died at age 122 in 1997.
“At 122 she was fairly debilitated. I visited her when she was 119 in France and at that time she was pretty much blind and having very much difficulty hearing,” he said.