Youth, said George Bernard Shaw, is wasted on the young. Go to England and you find a lot of tanning salons, visit the Middle East and blonde hair is at a premium. The young want to be older and the old want to be young again. Since you can get a tan in Yorkshire, and bleach your hair in Dubai, and since you are treated with remarkable seriousness as a young person, it’s about time us ancient ones also get our wish.
With science on the march – what is old might well be young again – and soon. Here’s just a handful of the technologies currently being explored and worked on to laminate our laugh lines back into beautiful, baby-smooth faces. The following isn’t medical advice – but a quick tour of some of the latest technologies that show a lot of youthful promise in the medium-term future.