Nah. We are living longer, and with gene technology advancing, we’re going to be living a lot longer than we are now.
As for genes causing problems, there will almost certainly be gene therapy to take care of most of that.
Look at RBG.
“there will almost certainly be gene therapy”
The article mentions that....
Intelligent design to fix a “random” genome....
(There is NOTHING random about our genome, by the way, I was just sarcing.)
Don’t overlook the general nature of current technology: it’s never as good as it was intended to be, and in many instances worse, or more problematic, than whatever it was intended to replace.
Actually life expectancy is trending down after trending up since the 1800’s. It could be blamed on many things but the obvious is processed foods, GMO grown foods including livestock, smoking, alcohol, stress, and drugs (both street and prescription).
Any genetic, stem cell advances, or other life extending treatments will be far too expensive for working class people to afford. This will be by design. Can’t have the little people living too long in retirement collecting paychecks. Those living into their 90’s are likely considered dead weight.
People do the dumbest things. By trying to help those in 3rd world countries who have been dying off due to lack of resources by getting them fed and living longer just makes things worse. Sterilizing them would be far more humane. Having babies when food is so scarce is a criminal act anyway.
Unless we quickly start moving off world and colonizing other planets where workers are needed and the resources are plenty; we humans will kill ourselves off much like a virus can kill the host it survives in once it reaches a certain level of multiplying. Nature usually finds a way to fix these problems via a plague, fire, or other natural disaster but I wouldn’t count on it simply because science is advancing to the point where it can offset the natural correction.
The thesis is that random non lethal genetic mistakes occur all the time and do not get selected out. These nonlethal mutations accumulate generation by generation...until one newer mutation kills the biological system... No one knows what to edit out till it kills or nearly kills the organism. And it goes on and on...despite error correction enzymes and methods employed by cells..other geneticists have written on the subject...
The thesis is that random non lethal genetic mistakes occur all the time and do not get selected out. These nonlethal mutations accumulate generation by generation...until one newer mutation kills the biological system... No one knows what to edit out till it kills or nearly kills the organism. And it goes on and on...despite error correction enzymes and methods employed by cells..other geneticists have written on the subject...