The answer to the first question, apparently, is yes. It's not even so far off...
The answer to the second one is a little tougher (will people stretch their phases of life, or will there be more phases added) and raises a couple of unexpected ethical questions (rich people 'buying more years'... in a way they currently do already).
"Sarah Harper is Oxford University Professor and world-expert on ageing. In this talk she asks whether we want to enter a world where we live for 200 years. Maybe we do, maybe we don't, but it is certainly something we should be discussing, because it is looking like being scientifically possible within a couple of generations."
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