The Last Generation to Age?

Most people think of aging as the one boss fight you can’t win. Grey hairs, creaky knees, and the slow slide into “back in my day” anecdotes. But according to immunologist Derya Unutmaz, that might all be about to change. His advice?

“Please, try to survive the next 10 years.”

Because if you do, you may never have to grow old again.

Rewinding the Clock

Unutmaz believes that, for the first time in human history, researchers have the tools to reverse the aging process itself. Not just slow it down, but roll it back. Imagine people in their 80s or 100s being biologically restored to their 20s, bones, skin, immune system, the works.

He doesn’t call this a minor breakthrough. He calls it potentially the greatest scientific discovery since the dawn of civilization.

The AI Factor

Of course, it won’t just be test tubes and lab coats making this possible. AI is expected to be the accelerator, analysing vast datasets, modelling interventions, and speeding up discoveries at a pace no human lab team could ever manage.

Unutmaz predicts that in as little as 5–10 years, AI-assisted research could hand humanity the key to biological immortality, or at least the cheat code to extend life far beyond what we know today.

There’s just one problem: we’re not there yet. Which is why Unutmaz’s message is oddly simple:

Survive. Don’t take yourself out of the running too early. Because if you can hold on through the messy transition years, the reward might not be a pension, but another lifetime. Or several.

It’s hard not to feel the thrill of it. A future where death from old age is optional, where generations live side by side as peers, where time itself becomes negotiable.

But the dystopian questions loom just as large:

• Who gets access? Everyone, or just the billionaires?

• What happens to society when no one retires, ever?

• And if the planet already struggles with 8 billion people, how do we cope when no one logs out?

Unutmaz’s words hang like a dare: “Survive the next decade.”
If he’s right, you could gain another five years. Make it 15, and maybe 50 more. By then, the human race might have solved aging altogether.

So if you’re reading this, hydrate, get some sleep, avoid doing anything spectacularly stupid. Because the last generation that had to age… might already be alive.