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Who promises that this will happen within 100 years? You need to give citations when you make statements like this.
Anyway: slicing, scanning, and uploading could all potentially be automated with machines and therefore be cheap. This could easily happen within a 100-300 year timeframe, if civilization doesn't collapse.
If you look back at the history of anti-aging, one of the most prominent theories in the early 1900s (1910s-1920s) was that hormone replacement could help extend lifespan. And one of the most prominent critiques of that idea was that only the rich would be able to access it.
Citation: A History of Life-Extensionism In The Twentieth Century, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SHPD0N4
If you look 100 years later... the technology is now easily accessible in richer countries such as the US. E.g., testosterone and estrogen replacement therapy is usually covered by Medicare:
- https://www.goodrx.com/testosterone/medicare-coverage
- https://www.goodrx.com/blog/prices-for-estrogen-replacement-therapies-double-four-years/