A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within Just 5 Years

By Jackie Appel – Popular Mechanics

Death and taxes—the twin inevitabilities of human life. At least, for the moment. If you ask some of the most prominent futurists in the world, death may not be on that (admittedly short and cliché) list for much longer.

There’s a controversial idea floating around the futurist community of “longevity escape velocity.” It sounds super sci-fi, but it’s basically the idea that as our life extension technology gets better, our life expectancy could increase by more than we age over a set period of time. For example, as medical innovations continue to move forward, we would still age a year over the span of a year. But our life expectancy would go up by, say, a year and two months, meaning we would functionally get two months of life back.