http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/20/anti-ageing-human-trialsThe way I see it is that governments, with all their regluations, patenting, and monopolies on things like medicine, are holding back science like this incredibly.
The news above in a stateless society would be cause for excitement; we'd finally defeat aging, (not just mortality, but the act of growing old itself!) Hooray!
Sadly, I know in this government-haunted world, we are not going to be allowed to access this kind of tech. It's for our masters, not for us.
How do I know this? Because I've seen stories exactly like this one put out on a daily basis since the 1970s, when I started reading, that's why. There are always, always, always 100 breakthroughs a day that are not allowed to be realized... I remember people driving all-electric cars made by GM back in the 1980s... Which got completely recalled and scrapped months later. Fuel cells, high-efficiency solar, life-extending tech, cancer cures, it's all been solved a hundred times before but each time it gets suppressed. We're simply not allowed to have any of the good tech, fellow peons.
I'm counting on the bitcoin economy to change this dynamic. If we grow the bitcoin economy to become dominant, then our masters won't have the power anymore to suppress anything. We'll finally be able to protect good tech from suppression, and long, youthful life will certainly be a part of that reward.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m99tUiSl374