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Scientific American A study counts blood cells and footsteps to predict a hard limit to our longevity Print Jeanne Calment enjoying her daily cigarette and glass of red wine on the occasion of her 117th birthday. In 1997 she died at the age of 122, and she still holds the record for the longest human life span. Credit: Jean-Pierre Fizet The chorus of the theme song for the movie Fame, performed by actress Irene Cara, includes the line “I’m gonna live forever.” Cara was, of course, singing about the posthumous longevity that fame can confer. But a literal expression of this hubris resonates in some corners of the world especially in the technology industry. In Silicon Valley, immortality is sometimes elevated to the status of a corporeal goal. Plenty of big names in big tech have sunk funding into ventures to solve the problem of death as if it were just an upgrade to your smartphone’s operating system.

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