Hyperbole. Resveratrol has effects, but biology is a symphony, and making one instrument really loud usually has unintended consequences. Using these drugs isn't similar to drinking red wine, as the effect is at least 100x more potent. I wouldn't rush to take such a pill. Exercise, calorie restriction, and some red wine. That's what I'd stick to until enough people have been taking this to uncover any ill effects that won't show up in a short-term clinical trial.'Some of us could live to 150, but we won't get there without more research.'
The thing is, if our current society is any indication, the cutoff point is not going to be determined solely by whether or not you are still living, but by whether or not you are still living and have the resources to pay for whatever transcending the physical reality in to the digital one costs (talking immortality not 150). Chances are it will begin as a process solely for the "elite". Better start saving!
This is the other point that I cannot escape when thinking on this issue. Sad but true. We will not be the ones able to afford what the bleeding edge of medicine will offer to those seeking the Holy Grail of longevity. At our very core, the free market societies that will develop these treatments are not set up to solve the problem of how to get the most life saving technology to the most people, but rather to extract the most profit from the various populations where they can.
True, but advanced technologies tend to quickly become cheap enough for everyone to buy - just look at cars, computers and mobile phones in the last century. Sure, not everyone has access to items of the same quality - I tote around a cheap Samsung brick while everyone else has smartphones - but if it's something as easily reproduced as a pill then even this wouldn't be a problem. A similar concern as the one you write about has been raised with regard to nootropics (cognitive enhancement medications) - that they'll be available only to the wealthy elite, further entrenching their financial superiority. But actually, nootropics are of more benefit to an individual the more people who have them. I'm better off if everyone has nootropics than if only I do. Perhaps the case is similar with regard to immortality drugs. One of my largest concerns is that it is pharmaceutical companies like GlaxoSmithKline who are trying to produce these pills; I imagine they'll sell them at several thousand % profit over the production cost.