Stop Thinking Like It's 2005.
Are zoomers really thinking like that? (picture below)
Aren't they following AI, science/tech news? Don't they see the insane progress everywhere?
ASI is around the corner. LEV is around the corner. We are in the middle of a biotech, medical, robotics, and AI mega explosion.
How can people be in their 20s or even 30s-50s in mid 2026 and think "it's over"?
Every day there are new breakthroughs in cancer research, longevity, organ regeneration, AI designed drugs, cellular reprogramming, robotics, and advanced medicine.
progress in most important fields is like ~20x faster than merely 10-20 years ago and accelerating each day.
few examples for last few days/weeks:
1. David Sinclair plans to test an oral reprogramming (anti aging) drug mixture in humans as part of the $101 million XPRIZE Healthspan competition
2. University of Cambridge scientists achieved a breakthrough by discovering a genetic switch that reverses central nervous system nerve damage.
3. A virus has stopped pancreatic cancer in its tracks in three people in a clinical trial in the US.
4. Nearly 70% of patients who received a mRNA vaccine in addition to immunotherapy were cancer free from melanoma after 5 years, compared to 49% of patients that just received immunotherapy.
5. A breakthrough discovery shows that disabling a single protein NFIL3 could help CAR T cells stay in the fight longer and take on hard to treat tumors more effectively.
6. In the journal Nature, researchers demonstrated a powerful new use of CRISPR technology that does not simply edit genes, but selectively destroys unhealthy cells altogether.
7. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center have identified a promising new strategy to overcome resistance to immunotherapy in colorectal cancer.
8. Scientists can now switch superconductivity on and off in nickelate thin films by engineering their atomic layers, revealing how to design superconductors from scratch (in other words - high temp/room pressure superconductors are around the corner, we're figuting them out, tons of progress during last 6 months in this area). We will have real, working "LK-99" soon.
Miracles are starting to happen almost daily, and some people still imagine themselves as weak, old, hunched over seniors in 2050s-2080s?
I mean, you don't even need to follow this closely.
Whether you're randomly scrolling on Reddit, X, Facebook, or TikTok, these breakthroughs are appearing all the time, everywhere, including every new release of AI apps and tools.
Thinking "it's over for me" basically means having no concept of progress.
How can some people look at what is happening in AI, biotech, medicine, robotics, longevity, automation, and still imagine the future as if it will be just a slightly better version of the past?
The next few weeks will be slightly better.
The next 15, 10, or even 5 years will bring a completely different world. A different civilization.
Even at today's pace of progress, 10 years would be enough to create a completely different world. But because progress is accelerating every day, it could easily happen in just 5 years.
We are not living in a normal decade, but through the opening years of a technological explosion. Every graph measuring tech growth shows that.
To many older people who have a longer perspective, it already looks like this.
Progress in medicine, cancer research, and most importanly in AI is so fast today that being even one year younger will dramatically increase your chances of seeing things like: aging reversal technology, Full Dive VR, cities on Mars, Moon and Pluto, interstellar voyages, terraforming planets, brain uploading, teleportation and many more.
Being just one year younger today than your older friend is almost equivalent to being a decade or even 20 years younger than someone in the early 2000s, when comparing your chances of living long enough to see the next wave of medical and technological breakthroughs.
That's how fast things are moving now.
and that's how much will happen over the next 12 months.
We will easily see more progress in the next 12 months than we saw between 2000 and 2012.
If you are in your 20s now, you will still be young in 2040. And we are already seeing insane progress in 2026: pancreatic cancer breakthroughs, obesity treatments, AI designed drugs, personalized cancer vaccines, and early steps toward cellular rejuvenation.
This is why "it's over" thinking makes no sense to me.
The curve is accelerating. And whether you are 20 or 70, every extra year on that curve matters more than almost anyone understands.
By the 2030s, aging reversal tech should let us basically start all over again, no matter how old you are.
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