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There's a great TED talk a few years ago on this. We have the technnology and know-how to significantly increase life expectancy and to do research to make it e
by jinushaun 15y ago
There's a great TED talk a few years ago on this. We have the technnology and know-how to significantly increase life expectancy and to do research to make it even better, but why don't we? Curing cancer and Alzheimer's is not the same thing. Why don't we explicitly research life extension? The speaker brought up several philosophical, political and economic reasons why society has chosen to ignore the problem. There are a lot of unforeseen implications to a world where everyone lives past 150.
- tokenadult 15y agoWe have the technnology and know-how to significantly increase life expectancy and to do research to make it even better For what value of "significantly"? And at what cost, in a world in which many people live on five dollars a day or less?
- drzaiusapelord 15y agoI'm not sure why that makes any difference. The level of medical care I can get (and have gotten) as a middle class American blows away what these people can get now. The disparity is so huge that adding 100 years to my life barely makes a dent in the disparity.