Longevity escape velocity

[4][5] The term "longevity escape velocity" was conceived of by futurist David Gobel of the Methuselah Foundation and coined by biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey in a 2004 paper,[4] but the concept has been present in the life extension community since at least the 1970s, such as in Robert Anton Wilson's essay Next Stop, Immortality.

The last two claim that by putting further pressure on science and medicine to focus research on increasing limits of aging, rather than continuing along at its current pace, more lives will be saved in the future, even if the benefit is not immediately apparent.

[8] Ray Kurzweil predicts that longevity escape velocity will be reached before humanity realizes it.

[11] In 2024, writing in The Economist, Kurzweil revised his prediction to 2029–2035 and explained how AI would help to simulate biological processes.

[12] Aubrey de Grey has also similarly predicted that humanity has a 50 percent chance of reaching longevity escape velocity in the mid to late 2030s.