In my opinion, The LOAR( law of accelerating returns) in artificial intelligence will be responsible for Life-extension solutions
When something becomes functional, it becomes valuable, than it attracts investment and research funding pours into it, as it gets better it attracts even more users, so then it attracts even more money, which further makes it even more useful like a snowball, this effect has no end until the end product ends up being worth billions or like any growing company, it gets better , which makes it richer, which makes it even better ETC, like a re-investment in compounded dividend interest
... The working "science fiction AI" Would advance society by 2000 years almost immediately, and if that is accomplished this century the singularity will be real
We can't even imagine that something that is cheap, nano sized, yet has the power of intellect of 1000 humans (1000 very very smart humans) will do
Companies won't exist... you just suggest an idea it does it all for you
We will have 9 billion Humans, but our intelligence is capped at 100 IQ points, and we have to sleep, eat, Are tied by emotions and generally only have 2 good peak hours of creativity a day
An abundant supply of super cheap 100,000 IQ's on a chip would mean 100,000 x 9 billion people, So while our population is the same the abundance of super-intelligence is limitless
I don't think the goal is science fiction ... I've read a lot of psychology, experimented with various stimulants, meditations, i understand a lot about how the mind creates associations/creates and i can observe them in myself for cause/effect to the point i think it's very achievable, Scarily achievable. This really is going to happen
Physics concepts which are hidden to us with our current intelligence will be wide-open
The #1 piece of the puzzle for technological solutions is AI
Society does not understand the massive benefit it would get for abundant super-intelligence and isn't investing enough into it right now
Say we randomly arrived at a time in the future where functional AI existed we would regret not having had it sooner.
It's like we have to get results first because we are risk averse.