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Living Well, Indefinitely
Posted by Scott on 6th March, 2008 | 172 commentsI’m in San Diego this week for the Emerging Technology Conference. ETech offers a great opportunity to hear about the latest tech breakthroughs and to talk with some of today’s best minds in science, engineering, and online media.
There are a lot of sessions at the conference that focus on genetics, neurobiology, and other health/biological science. One area that I have become particularly passionate about is longevity research — not just the idea of living longer, but the idea of biologically living as a 20-something indefinitely without experiencing age related disease or decay. Despite many advances in research over the past decade, this important concept has not yet been widely embraced by the public, and after talking with some of the best minds here, I’ve come to the following conclusions:
6 Reasons People Don’t Support Longevity Research:
1) They are highly religious, and believe that living is standing in the way of reaching their creator. This doesn’t make sense because any creator would have given us life and wants us to live, not to die. Christianity says that Jesus’ death was a sacrifice, something undesirable, not something to be welcomed and revered.
2) They use history (the death of all living things before us) as an excuse for why preventing aging, disease, and death, are ultimately impossible despite the vast number of “first time” accomplishments and breakthroughs that our species has had in the past 100 years alone.
3) They don’t like their lives and would therefore choose not to prolong them. Ultimately this is a solvable problem, given resources and time.
4) They are old and are decrepit, aging has already deteriorated their mind and body, and life isn’t worth living.
5) They are morally opposed to a longer life, citing social problems or population issues. Again, this is a problem that can be addressed – requiring the deaths of billions after some agreed upon period of time in order to make room for a fresh batch should not be a requirement to living.
6) They believe that aging is a given – that it is caused by time, not by cellular processes. In reality, it is known that aging is programmed into our cells as an evolutionary process.
…And yet, nearly every living human contradicts all 6 of the above by:
1) Accepting the latest medical advances in drugs (for high blood pressure, vaccines, cholesterol, diabetes, etc), diagnostics, surgical procedures, which have extended our life expectancy from 30 in 1800 to over 75 today.
2) The innate fear of death is a natural protective emotion that we all experience, and we therefore wear seat belts, we go to the emergency room to get “fixed” when we are very ill, we skip French fries and steaks at times, most choose not to smoke, and we look both ways when crossing the street. We do these things to keep living because we choose life!
Why the contradiction?
Why are we happy to continue pushing the envelope of age by relying on technological advancements in one breath, and in the next breath failing to become adamant supporters of anti-aging research?
1) People view living too long as undesirable because they think it means reaching a decrepit state like that of today’s 120 year olds, and maintaining that indefinitely. That would be unpleasant. However, the aim of longevity research is to stop aging and to maintain a physical biological age of 20 something, indefinitely. If you could live as a 25 year old for 500 years, or more importantly, indefinitely (with no certain well defined end) wouldn’t you?
2) People ignore their mortality until they’re dead or dying. The thought of dying, not-existing, losing everything one has and all of one’s memories for billions of years to come, is scary and no one likes to think about it. Therefore, if the only people who care about aging and death are 80, then who is going to fix the problem? We need 18 year olds to study science and become researchers to fix the problem and 20 something science geniuses to dedicate their lives to the problem, but they don’t care because 18 year olds think that they’re immortal. By the time a person starts thinking about death, in their 30’s or 40’s, it’s probably too late for them (even if they are in a scientific field) to specialize in the area of research that could stop it from happening to us.
3) Society views death as a certainty, like “death and taxes” as the saying goes, and aging and its associated diseases is directly responsible for that timeless belief. It’s that ingrained belief that leads to apathy and acceptance. If everyone is apathetic and accepting of death and aging, then no one will try to change it.
4) People view aging as the last frontier, and won’t care to tackle it until all other threats (disease) have been eliminated first. The trouble with this mentality is that most disease including cancer and heart disease is age related - if we stopped our cells from aging at age 20, we could significantly delay most diseases like cancer and heart disease although aging isn’t 100% responsible for those diseases and they will need to be addressed in their own right.
There won’t be any such thing as immortality in our foreseeable future, because asteroids, nuclear attacks, cosmic events, and even car crashes and other accidents, remain threats. But the goal of wiping out cancer and heart disease (the two biggest killers) and either genetically tricking our cells into not decaying or using technologies to repair and replace aged cells (stem cells, nanotechnology devices) will go a long way towards making the tragedy of death an infrequent occurance. We shouldn’t have to live with a life expectancy cap, knowing that we will degenerate and eventually perish for eternity. We should be able to live every day in full vibrant health, fully expecting to wake up the next morning, until an asteroid hits us every 65 Million years or so or until an 18 wheeler runs a red light and smacks us.
But if a death at age 25 is tragic (or 35% of our current life expectancy), why isn’t a death at 70 tragic? If we gradually increased our life expectancy to 200 (the oldest living human was 122 so far), wouldn’t death at 70 then be tragic too (70 is 35% of 200)? Isn’t death at any age, therefore, tragic, given that our life expectancy will likely continue to increase as our scientific knowledge increases?
Aging is a disease, like any other. Our cells are programmed by nature to decay and to divide only a finite number of times. This doesn’t have to be a certainty – we are advanced biological machines, and this is an engineering and science problem that can and will eventually be overcome. The question is: 2007 became the year of “green” thanks to a shift in public perception due to the media’s influence, leading to huge investment dollars going into alternative energy research and global warming awareness, but how long must we wait until we declare the year of “I choose to live”? When will people stand up for themselves and their right to live and to be, and demand that our society make the elimination of cancer (not just the treatment of cancer to the benefit of drug companies), heart disease and all other disease, and the elimination of biological aging, the #1 priority of our species?
Never before in human history have we had the technological means to even begin to address this difficult problem. Our ancestors (around 60 billion people by some estimates) died in order to make this world a better place and so that we could learn and build on their accomplishments. Surely there is nothing more important than the massive reduction in human suffering (losing loved ones, or experiencing chronic disease), aging, and death, if it is within our technological capability to do so. We have an obligation to pursue such a challenge with all available means (not just a handful of well-intentioned researchers) to honor those who came before us and to prevent the unnecessary deaths of most people living today.
The $20 Blogging Challenge
So here’s my challenge to you: think about this issue. Read the resource links below (if you desire) and make a post to support this issue on your blog. In exchange, I’ll do follow up posts here at wrevenue.com linking back to you from my PR6 blog and I’ll even do one better: the first 100 bloggers who do a blog post about this issue to voice their demand for serious research to stop the aging process, and who write me to give me a link to their post, will each earn $20 paid via Paypal by yours truly - don’t delay to write your post and claim your easy $20!
Resources:
- Life Expectancy Of Yeast Extended To 800 In Yeast Years
- The End of Aging? Inside the New Hunt for a Cure to Growing Old
- Aubrey de Grey thinks he knows how to defeat aging, live to 1,000.
- Stem Cells Enable Paralyzed Rats to Walk, Ready for Human Trials
- Rare Gene Mutation Plays Role in Longevity
- The Next Big Thing? (Stanley Bing, Fortune.com)
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Good post — A few words on number one — you’re exactly right — any creator would have given us life and wants us to live, not to die –
Jesus said “I have come so that they may have life and have it more abundantly”
Great post and idea. Getting media attention toward life extension is the first step.
I think most people would support life extension if the news just reported on science more often. There can be a huge break though, one I read today was imaging a virus at 4.5 angstroms, and mud slides in LA will make the news, but not the science.
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Wonderful post! It is great that you are willing to give away 2k just to support this research. Considering that you are clearing 7 figures a year, I don’t think that it is to hard for you, but just the moral of the thing amazes me.
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Sent the link over. This is actually a good topic. I am not new to medicine and everything related.
Forgot to post the link here too…
http://mi11ion.blogspot.com/2008/03/when-would-you-rather-die.html
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Share’d this with my visitors and gave my opinion …. http://www.everythingwebrelated.com/2008/03/06/live-forever-and-blog-about-it/
Wish you the best of luck in getting the word out.
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This was indeed a very good topic. I read and hear about the anti-aging research. But it doesn’t happen much and less new or progress about the research. I hope you topic could bring more attentions to the WWW and the world.
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Interesting points. I have saved several articles concerning longevity over the years. I hope your efforts are successful - both the research and the longevity.
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My blog entry is here:
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I put a bit about it at the end of my last post
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Very nice and interesting article.
I contacted you with my entry.
Thanks.
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My response to the challenge can be read here:
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Thank you Scott, your article does make me think a lot, with or without the challenge
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Here is my post about longevity research: http://flimjo.com/?p=59.
hey scott..
i have made a blog post to support your voice for longivity…..do have a look.. the link is…
http://yogeshgoel.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-long-or-say-indefinitely.html
do let me know if i can be of more help.
regards
Yogesh
The info you described is exactly how my grandmother was when she gave up on life. Here’s my post to help the cause. http://theinsanewriter.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-longer-in-this-sane-world.html
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Kudos Scott, love the idea of the challenge.
I personally never worry much about longevity so much as quality of life. But I’d like to see more research done in both areas, they really go hand in hand.
The article on stem cell research was a great read. I see they are making amazing breakthroughs there. Hopefully you check out a few of the articles I posted on Nanotech. I’ve been watching that area for several years and it looks like they are making some great strides in the right directions.
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here’s my post:
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Hello,
Here’s my two cents on the issue:
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Thanks
Hi. I am in Scott. Hope you check this blog and see whether this qualifies.
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hi scott…
not many people keep up with their word…
but u have done it..
thanx for the payment friend…
do let me know if i can be of any help to u any time…
Thanx once again,
Regards and love,
Yogesh
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I encourage you to post about this issue to all your blogs but there will be one payment per blogger, not per post or per blog.
hi scott, my paypal account is same with my e-mail address. alderite@gmail.com thanks
Dear Scott,
These blogs are not of one blogger. We are 8 friends who want to buy a new hosting. So we decided to pool our resources and buy the hosting. We all are different bloggers and have different blogs. We decided to receive our payment on 1 paypal ID so that we can buy our new hosting. Hope you will pay us our accordingly and help up buy our hosting.
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I’m not an idiot. If you try to fraud me, you’ll get $0. If you think you can succeed in business by screwing people over, you must not be a regular reader of this blog.
Good action it will keep fraud people at bay. Specially like these. Btw ur old articles are too god am a regular reader now for sure because of the content and the fair decision
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What is longevity research?
It is research that involves keeping the human body younger for a longer period of time than nature allows. This type of research has been overlooked for many years.
In my opinion I think that longevity research should be pursued in order to make the human race better off and the world a better place. Think abot it, if you were able to live longer, you would be able to have all of the wisdom of age and still be healthy and strong physically. So this in turn could lead to an intellectual revolution with people getting older with more accumulated knowledge and not passing away. Honestly, I also think that if we were able to live longer lives, we could be happier people if we stayed younger longer. With younger people in the work force, the world would be more efficient as well. So if asked if I support longevity research, I can honestly say without a doubt that I think it would be best for us to look into it.
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You know what?
Your going to die. Don’t worry about it. That is the inner beauty of life.
How profound. Everyone is entitled to their own individual beliefs and wishes. While it’s statistically likely that I will die, I choose not to have my life expectancy capped by a genetic program in my body that’s set to slowly decay all of my cells. I choose to live indefinitely, if medical science permits, until an asteroid hits the Earth or some other accident happens. If you choose otherwise, that is your wish.
If this was the year 1900, you’d be 100% right. I’d just throw up my hands and say “whatever”, and expect to go the way of my ancestors. But this isn’t 1900. This is 2008. The advancements we’ve seen in science have extended our lives from a max age of 30 in 1800 to 75 today, and there are so many technologies (stem cells, genetics, nanotech) poised to do much more that in the next 20 years.
It’s also a question of “when”. Again, I choose to live 500 years if science permits, not 80. Your acceptance of death mirrors that of most people which is how most people are able to function day to day without going mad. But entrepreneurs, visionaries, scientists, don’t accept the way things are, and they work to use our intellect to improve our species. If I accepted things the way they are, I would have stayed in school, got a degree, got a $30k/year job, blah blah blah. I chose to part with the norm, to rock the boat, to choose my own path. It’s my hope that those in biomedical fields will choose to do the same, in order to extend all of our lives indefinitely.
And BTW, I don’t find death to be “the inner beauty of life” in any way. There’s nothing beautiful about the cessation of a loving, feeling, knowledgeable, wise, self-aware being. Evolution created death as a way to further the species - no species could exist naturally without death, because that species would either die out from overpopulation and starvation or would be unable to evolve and adapt to a changing environment. But our species has reached the point (or nearly, anyway), where it no longer needs aging and death in order for the species to survive.
BTW I want to point out that I want to live indefinitely because I like living and I just want to “be”. I don’t think I’m better than anyone else, I don’t think I have anything particularly useful to offer this world beyond what many others have to offer, so that’s not the motivation here. I just want to live, period, and I want everyone else to have the same choice.
“While it’s statistically likely that I will die, I choose not to. I choose to live indefinitely”
Oh man Scott reading this gave me a good chuckle. I’m definitely with you on the thought though. As long as my quality of life is good I’d like to be around for as long as humanly or scientifically possible.
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Interesting post and gives us something to think about. I wrote the post and sent you a message. Thanks so much.http://debslounge.com/2008/03/09/getting-the-word-out–longevity-research.aspx
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but Scott think about the growth of population on this planet if everyone lives for around 500+ years. So will we stop having children too?
We’ll have to cross that bridge eventually. Our life expectancy has been going up up up since 1800 and should continue to. Either fewer kids, or better infrastructure to support more people (vertical cities, engineered food etc).
Hello
Just because fraud posts are coming from india don’t deprive real posters. I know some people might be fraud but there are many who are real.
Atleast accept posts from them. See the blog histories of people. Page Rank and other things then give revenue to them.
Please consider it
Thanx
Sorry, but I got about 30 posts from the same two or three people in India even though I explicitly said $20 per blogger not per post. I don’t have all day to figure out which posts are legitimate so yeah, a few people ruined it for a whole country. That’s why a lot of ecommerce stores block entire countries, because they don’t have the time or resources to deal places that are generating a lot of fraud. I’m not having any other problems with any other country.
Hi Scott
Just Read This
*** UPDATE 3/8/2008: Due to a high rate of fraud posts coming in from India, I am no longer accepting challenge entries from that country. ***
Nice to see you don’t want fraud people to get it, but i want to suggest something.India does have legit bloggers though i know many are fake and i hate them as they are a black mark on Indian bloggers.
Am myself Indian and proud to be one. There are many indian bloggers which are good.
An example would be Amit Aggarwal of www.labnol.org.
I am also trying to get into serious blogging. So i would suggest you first investigate about the entries a bit like how old the blog is, own domain name sometimes help thought it can be misleading too, also page rank and alexa rank are a nice sign, daily posts also.
I can just suggest, am with you to block fraud people and would recommend any fraud commentors i come across.
Thanx & Regards
Priyam Malhotra
BTW: I saw your feed reader number was reduced by 27 it was 627 yesterday and now its 600…. Many people must have subscribed after this post (including me) but still reduction in it??? Strange.
Scott,
Your idea about baning Indian bloggers from the contest SUCKS!!!, I will not say go to Hell , i will say stay right there, you are already in it.
That’s so nice of you, thanks. Especially considering I paid over $100 to Indian bloggers prior to the ban. The ban was brought about due to 20 blog challenge posts by the same 2 or 3 Indian bloggers. I don’t have all day to sit and weed out fake posts.
SCOTT You rock…. Don’t bother about that moron… Please am waiting for a new article which would somethin new… please post an article ASAP
Shanker Bakshi Before typing that stuff you should think about his situation…. try 2 put yourself in his place and then think… anyone can use idiotic language like you but it takes courage to be polite…..
Wow, this opens up my eyes to the possibilities of longevity. I have heard the research on it in a lot of different places and was inspired. But then, I never really found myself looking into it.
Sir,
I understand your thoughts about the spam entries coming from India.
I sometimes feel bad that people from other countries treat Indians like that.
I do accept that many here are greedy and can do anything for money.
But, my entry to your challenge was 100% legal.
Also, I wouldn’t have commented on your other blog posts if I was a spammer and would have ONLY participated in this challenge.
I am really learning a lot from your posts and have already bookmarked your website.
Please let me know, as how I can prove myself and my blog to be legit.
Thanks
but Scott, you didn’t answer my this ques.
“think about the growth of population on this planet if everyone lives for around 500+ years. So will we stop having children too?”
Maybe yes we would need to stop having children. Or maybe we’ll shift to other planets
A weird though…. If ny of the above doesn’t happen then maybe there will be laws to govern how long a person can live and has to die after tha?? That would be really sad…. just think about it…
Thanx & Regards
Priyam Malhotra
Its sad to know you’ve disqualified all Indian entries. Its serious bloggers like us who suffer cause of this.
Although I agree there would be many fraud people also registering, but that doesn’t mean every Indian is fraud.
Anyways keep up the good work….I really enjoy reading your posts
Regards,
Tanmay
Of course it doesn’t mean that every indian blogger intends to commit fraud. It does mean that I got 30 fraudulent posts from india and not from any other country, and I just don’t have time to deal with that.
I totally agree with the author…
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I send you a mail but haven’t received any reply. Have 100 blog posts requirement been met? Do I qualify for a $20 claim?
Seems you didn’t read this…
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Coz of some bloody fraud people legit bloggers have also been blocked
Btw saw in ur blog roll Windows Vista Club so u also knw anand?? We r good online frnds
Sorry for the delay. I processed payments for about 50 or so posts, and did the first post linking back to those blogs, but I went out of town on Saturday and haven’t had a chance to go through the rest (plus the 30 fraudulent posts from India are taking me a lot of time to sort through). I hope to have the final payments processed today if you made the top 100 cut, you’ll know.
Hi,
I heard this news from one of my friend and I felt bad about it.
I understand that there would be so many people who are fraud but please don’t blame each and everyone .
Anyways,I like your post.It was fantastic.
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Hmm…
Atleast I found the work very much interesting.
Really feeling bad to be tagged as fraud though.
-SpyBuster
Great!
Thanks Mr.Scott for giving me $20 and for having faith in me, my blog and my words.
I would continue to read your blog posts, and have already started recommending it to others.
Thank You!
Hi Scott, thanks for the inspiration. I got some really good ideas from you that is why I am also making the 50$ blog challenge on my site.
Hi scott, i just want to ask , that i was not in top 100 in your blogging challege or you have thought me as fraud… if yes then i like you to visit my site once more i will be highly obliged and see your blog link over their and i really appreciate your site as it teach me lot about internet world. i request you to see my site once i will be highly thankful to you.. http://www.feelingislife.blogspot.com
becoz al i want is knowledge of blogging from you if u really like my review then plz send me my award in paypal account ( enlighten.power@gmail.com) thanking you i hope you wil like my review on my site…
Hey there Sumit some nice posts about love there kudos man… even i cherish love as its most important in life…
Offtopic: U need some english improvement for sure like another frnd of mine does
Just stopped by to say that you are a professional in every way,because what you said is true and not an hoax like some out there.
Thanks and hope you visit and comment in my blog.
As so Scott if you want contact me at
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Hey scott, not all blogs are fraud my friend. my blog is legitimate. http://www.coolwizardz.com/2008/03/08/aproach-made-for-long-healthy-life/
this is my post url. you can check my blog if you want. waiting for my backlink and payment. pls change my paypal id to this one (ignore the earlier one)
new id - ash_coolwizard@yahoo.co.in
Thank you so much. I received my $20 today. What a great topic to look into more.
So are we going to see a new list or still you have not reached 100 ????
The Science of Immortality
If you could live to the age of 500, would you want to? I can hear the answers now! “I don’t want to be a burden to my great grand children”, “Heck no, I can’t wait for heaven”, “I don’t want anyone havi…
Great subject and provoked a lot of thought in writing a post about this.
Thanks
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If only I could live for a thousand years, I will!!!
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This is a very good idea. I cannot believe I can get $20 out of this. By the way, can I refer this to my friends?
Thanks.
Send payment at
*pwengbee000 [@] yahoo [dot] com.
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Hey, can I get my $20 now?!? Thanks.
No, because your site is a redirect trap that sends users out to an ad as soon as they land on it.
Why not? You never mention anything about that? If I remove that ad, I will still get it?
What’s the point of your site if you’re just going to redirect all of your inbound traffic out to an ad? It’s not even some of the traffic, or opening a new window, it’s just redirecting every visitor to an ad landing page. That’s not a blog or a website, that’s a marketing gimmick - I’m paying $20 for posts on real blogs.
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Oh. I see. You never specified something about blog specifications. Sorry.
Hi Scott
Wanted to ask something how did you manage to get tat Digg button on only this page and not on all the pages?? I used a plugin and displayed Digg on all the pages and it looked kind of bad if the topic was not dugg
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Hi there! An excellent article. But you have explained the ignorance of people towards such technology which is very true. Most people only think something is possible when it is done /invented/discovered. I am interested in the actual science of what is being done and what has already been achieved so far. Such a interesting topic.
I will link back to this blog from my website Amrit Ray I would like to help
Obagi Blue Peel
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
WOW! 154 responses… in all honesty, if there were effective ways that you could live longer and it were not expen$ive, everyone would jump at the chance. This reminds me of two stories. #1 - The movie, the Island where clones are created and later hacked up (or whatever) for their owners. But you needed $$$ to have a clone made for you. #2 - The series of stories by Heinlein around “Methuselah’s Children” where those that lived long mated with others that also lived long thereby passing the genes onto each generation with enabled each successive generation to live longer — really a experiment in eugenics.
However where science and technology are now headed, perhaps in 25 or 50 years time there will be effective methods to enable people to live longer — but also more productive lives, not to be relegated to a nursing home because you are too old to see/hear/walk/talk or do anything else.
Mo
I imagine a time in the not so distant future (50-100 years) where people look back and say “just imagine what it was like back then, people actually died at random and their bodies just decayed over time! How ridiculous!” We’re not there yet but for the first time in history, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel with all the advancements that are being made now in biomedicine. The key is for people to stop accepting aging and death as a certainty and start treating death as something that only occurs by accident, something that can be prevented via engineering.
Scott - I totally agree with you. We are too scared by the inevitable. If God - or any higher being did not want us to make advancements in science, technology or a host of other areas we would not be equipped with the brain that we have and the ability to be curious about our environment. We would be more like animals and live only to live another day and by instinct alone.
Your contradictions are so true. The diabetic would stop taking medicine, the heart patient would not opt for surgery or medications to help them live longer.
Every day I read stories where science has found that certain opinions are no longer valid or that they need to be re-examined in light of new information that is found.
I feel we are getting closer, and closer - we just need that one “spark” or “thought” to break down many doors and walk through to a brigher future.
An excellent article
Your idea is more excellent. Thanks for sharings. I will agree with this.
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I came to your blog from Forbes.
You are right, one have to enjoy their life in order to live, live, live despite anything going bad for them. And that takes a motivation, an eduction, a skill like anything else in life. But we don’t get a manual of How-To file with our life at the beginning?
Take my dying husband for example. He had Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy for over 20 years. RSD is terrible, painful condition that renders you helpless and hopeless for all practical purposes Did I mentioned it is painful? Let me say it again. It is very painful. Painful enough for many and many RSD patients to commit suicide.
RSD rendered my husband totally physically disabled, bed bound for the most part. But he acts like there is nothing unusual about his life. He loves his life, he fills his day with some productive activities (lying in his bed) and he is thinking on how he can be more productive during the day and sleep less. Because he never liked to sleep.. Life is too exciting for him to waste it on sleep.
I am looking at his ravaged by RSD body and I think.. Jesus, where does he get his strength from.. to go on like this…. Smile, enjoy his day… never complain..
Why I am sharing this? I hope that people would appreciate their lives more. I hope they take a really good inventory and count all their blessings and start living more enjoyable lives. Short or long.. Every day is precious.
To me, my husband is a bench mark because I’ve got two legs, two arms and a head, I am not in physical pain. If something goes wrong and things do go wrong with me all the time, I know I can fix it and just roll on…
Great and thorough post.
Have not heard of the Emerging Technology Conference - sounds good. I wonder if you were at Convergence 08 in San Jose in November - enjoyed it a lot.
I like that you are spreading the word. Well done for putting some prize money up.
Cheers
Malc
The idea is good,but has the iadea taken into consideration the economic factors and social factors? No how can I continue earning for so long while the policies are to retire people after some age.Can the emerging tech conf produce such social results or rather revolution.\?
Further has anybody developed such an individual elongating his age with youth preserved?
Let the author understand that worlds events even existence is swayed by proportions.If more such youths who are for more years on earth develop in large number the social system and economic realities will change for better or worse from my judgement.
Instead of such intellectual pursuit let the author develop such a person for others follow suit.
Venkat
Think about what each human being needs to exist: food, water, shelter. As we advance, technology makes each simpler to achieve. If aging and disease were eradicated, the birth rate would need to be regulated unless we had other worlds to go to. But economy wise, once food/water/shelter can be readily had and are cheap and unlimited, then what does it matter if everyone is the same “age”, essentially? The economy will have to adapt. The jobs people do and the needs that people meet will have to adapt.
Where do you think we’re headed? Do you think we’ll stop pursuing solutions to the things that kill us, including aging? No. Better get used to the idea that some day, whether in our lifetime or not, these problems will be solved, and we had better be ready to face new challenges brought about by indefinite lifespans (limited initially by accidental traumas, but with further advances in bioengineering and protective structures for our bodies or augmentation of our biological structures with synthetics, essentially unlimited at that point). We are rapidly engineering ourselves and our evolution. Technology is advancing at an astounding and exponential rate. In case you hadn’t noticed, science fiction is now officially science fact. Hip operations that took 6 hours 15 years ago now take 30 minutes. Severed spinal cords in rats have been repaired with stem cells (Geron).
Aging was built into our cells since day 1 and was absolutely imperative for our species to evolve, grow (without exhausting resources and killing itself), and to survive over vast periods of time. But now, we’re smart enough to begin taking over the role of evolution by engineering our own bodies. That means aging is no longer necessary for us to adapt and evolve by having to create a new being with adapted/evolved characteristics - instead, we can apply desired adaptations/changes to existing humans without the need for death, via stem cells, gene therapy, etc. In the past 50 years, we have made death obsolete, we don’t need it anymore — we just haven’t figured out how to stop our cellular “death programs” from running– yet.
The thing with longevity research is that it undermines the goals of big pharma, who would have us all sick and on really expensive long term medication treating symptoms, costing a fortune.
Diet and nutrition is where it all is at, and once we realise that foodstuffs grown on demineralised soils that have been drenched in chemical agricultural poisons of all descriptions aren’t good for us, we are well on our way to understanding basic health and longevity.
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