Live to be 1,000

Geneticst Aubrey de Grey, despite having a frighteningly long beard, believes humans can have frighteningly long lives, using technology that either exists today or is currently under development.

When we get these therapies, we will no longer all get frail and decrepit and dependent as we get older, and eventually succumb to the innumerable ghastly progressive diseases of old age.

We will still die, of course - from crossing the road carelessly, being bitten by snakes, catching a new flu variant etcetera - but not in the drawn-out way in which most of us die at present...

I think the first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already.

And you think television is bad today? Imagine 1,000 years of Rosanne repeats...