Radical Life Extension
Speculative Concept
The FutureRadical Life Extension
Longer healthy lives, imagined.
Medical advances could greatly extend healthy human lifespans and change how we understand aging.
Life expectancy has risen over two centuries, and researchers study aging. No treatment is known to slow human aging substantially.
A speculative concept with no date, drawn as a dashed line running forward from now.
- Era
- The Future
- Period
- Speculative · Undated
- Edition
- 1/1
- Status
- Not Released
Background artwork
An original illustration generated for TIME with an AI image model, 2026. It depicts an imagined scene. It is not a photograph of a real place or event, and it is not a prediction.