Aubrey de Grey believes that one day soon humans could live forever. It goes something like this:
* We systematically prepare damage to the body at a cellular level.
* Significant advances in our ability to do this occur every 20-30 years.
* Like spinning a frisbee, we carry on living indefinitely.
de Grey believes that within a short time we can reach an escape velocity, where someone treated could actually live past a 1000 years, and that person is probably only 10 years younger than the first guy to reach 150 years.
There’s a 15 minute TED talk online, which I found today via boingboing.
the same over-enthusiastic claptrap that will have us careening up a technological spike toward singularity on the wings of AI angels (or devils, depending on your viewpoint)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Comment by imo — November 15, 2006 @ 1:54 pm