And yet there are species of animals that can live well over 500 years without aging much. If it just comes down to errors, perhaps we should focus on finding better error repair mechanisms. If half the money that went into building the ad platforms was put into senescence repair mechanisms, who knows where we would be. One sad thing about pointless high paying tech jobs is they often take brilliant minds and set them to work building a better bean counter in exchange for money. A good portion of work done every day by Silicon Valley will have no lasting benefit and will be completely thrown out. Humans are smart enough to understand this but not smart enough to break the meaningless cycle and work on goals that will benefit society over the next 1000 years.