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Do you want to live forever?

According to leading "futurist" Dr. Ian Pearson, that might become a viable option by the year 2050.

In a new report, he suggests that anyone born after 1970 has a good chance of achieving immortality thanks to the rapid advances in technology.

However, he does point out that the rich and famous will get there first.

The rest of us will likely have to wait until the 2060s or 2070s to be able to afford it.

"Most people on middle-class incomes and reasonable working-class incomes can probably afford this in the 2060s. So anyone 90 or under by 2060," said Dr. Pearson, according to the Express .

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Dr. Pearson argues that the ability to live forever will come from advances in technologies like genetic engineering and computer simulations.

He suggests that in the future it will be possible to renew body parts that have given out or have your consciousness transferred into a Matrix-like virtual world.

“A long time before we get to fix our bodies and rejuvenate it every time we feel like, we'll be able to link our minds to the machine world so well, we'll effectively be living in the cloud," Dr. Pearson said.

"No one wants to live forever at 95 years old, but if you could rejuvenate the body to 29 or 30, you might want to do that.”

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What's more, he suggests that we won't even be interacting with each other in the same way - or in some cases not at all.

Instead we will "rent" android partners to help us live out our lives. Similar to the movie Avatar, we could place our consciousness inside an android body.

"If you wanted to spend the evening in Australia, going to the Sydney opera house, you could use an android,” Dr. Pearson said.

And some may choose to take the relationship even further.

"The current state of sex dolls are starting to look quite human-like. Give them another 30 years of development and they'll be extremely human-like," he said.

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And although it seems like the wealthy will benefit at first, even lower-income families will be able to afford this kind of technology, the futurism expert suggests.

"By 2060, people like you or I will be able to buy it, and by 2070 people in poor countries on modest incomes will be able to buy it.

"Everyone will have a chance to have immortality, a sort of electronic immortality.

"After 10, 15, 20 years, the price comes down to hundreds of pounds, rather than millions.

"It could be provided as part of the NHS. You might be able to buy premium offerings on a private subscription, or you might get a basic presence on a network and be allowed to use an android body."

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Even if we don't want to live forever, general day-to-day life will have been made even more technology-dependent than it is now. Here are some of Dr. Pearson's predictions for how our home life will change in the next half-century.

What you do at home in 2018

Watching broadcast TV Reading Listening to music Cooking Streaming TV and movies

What you will be doing at home in 2050