As an intuitive I can say that living to 200 likely will be reached by some by the end of this century. This doesn't mean that everyone will do it or even choose to try to do it. It just means that some likely will succeed. You might say, "Why would anyone want to?" My response is: "Imagine someone really amazing like a George Lucas a Steven Spielberg or even Obama or Clinton or Mandela or Gandhi or Mother Teresa living to be 200 with all their faculties intact? What good could be done by such a person who still had good mental and physical health that long into their lives? How much good could someone like these people or others actually accomplish for themselves and mankind?
The answer is: "We don't know now how much good could be done." But, it looks like we are going to try and likely succeed at it by 2100. So, it is theoretically possible that someone born in the early 1900s might be still alive in 2100. Amazing but possible now! However, I think it more likely that the first person to hit 200 likely will be born around 1935 to 1945.
To understand the basis of what I'm talking about it might be helpful for you to know there are presently over 70,000 people over 100 in the U.S. right now and there are expected to be well over 140,000 people over 100 by the year 2020 just here in the U.S. And the list over 100 will only grow from that through time because of science and technology as well as dietary and psychological breakthroughs.
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