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I'd say he's in good company along with Aubrey de Grey, Google, Cynthia Kenyon, Craig Ventor, Genentech, Apple and a few others... and with most of the rest of

I'd say he's in good company along with Aubrey de Grey, Google, Cynthia Kenyon, Craig Ventor, Genentech, Apple and a few others... and with most of the rest of the human race of course. http://humanlongevity.com http://humanlongevity.com http://calicolabs.com http://calicolabs.com http://genopharmix.com http://genopharmix.com http://sens.org http://sens.org http://thebuckinstitute.com http://thebuckinstitute.com “What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon [now with Google’s Calico effort] has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing to how we might one day significantly extend youthful human life.” — TED.com [VIDEO]: http://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_kenyon_experiments_that_hint_of_longer_lives http://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_kenyon_experiments_that_hin... “Google Launches New Company, Calico, to Extend the Human Life Span” - http://goo.gl/2LgUKd http://goo.gl/2LgUKd “The Race To Extend The Human Lifespan Is Heating Up: Google & Craig Venter Leading the Pack" - http://goo.gl/xrHWgv http://goo.gl/xrHWgv “For too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking. Arthur Levinson is one of the crazy ones who thinks it doesn’t have to be this way. There is no one better suited to lead this mission and I am excited to see the results.” - Apple CEO Tim Cook “Ten years ago, we thought aging was probably the result of a slow decay, a sort of rusting. But Professor Kenyon has shown that it’s ... controlled by genes. That opens the possibility of slowing it down with drugs.” — Jeff Holly, Bristol University

kiba 12y ago
most of the rest of the human race of course. Most of the human race? Isn't there a meme that said pursuing immortality is folly? That being said, I am in support of giving humans the opportunity to become immortal even though that implies we have to give up making babies.
- biomimic 12y ago
  Extending human lifespan solves for space travel. Space travel solves for [fill in the blank]
- Turing_Machine 12y ago
  Not necessarily. People would still be killed by accidents, acts of war, etc. As long as each person contributed only one set of genes on average to the next generation (i.e., two children if each one was with one other partner, one child for full clones) the population would stabilize eventually. At a much higher level, yes, but it wouldn't grow without bound. I think I read somewhere (but can't source at the moment) that if you got rid of diseases and old age, the average lifespan would be about 400 or so. That's considerably higher, but not true immortality. All bets are off if we get computer brain backups and those are legally and philosophically accepted as being the "same person".

kiba 12y ago

most of the rest of the human race of course. Most of the human race? Isn't there a meme that said pursuing immortality is folly? That being said, I am in support of giving humans the opportunity to become immortal even though that implies we have to give up making babies.

biomimic 12y ago
Extending human lifespan solves for space travel. Space travel solves for [fill in the blank]
Turing_Machine 12y ago
Not necessarily. People would still be killed by accidents, acts of war, etc. As long as each person contributed only one set of genes on average to the next generation (i.e., two children if each one was with one other partner, one child for full clones) the population would stabilize eventually. At a much higher level, yes, but it wouldn't grow without bound. I think I read somewhere (but can't source at the moment) that if you got rid of diseases and old age, the average lifespan would be about 400 or so. That's considerably higher, but not true immortality. All bets are off if we get computer brain backups and those are legally and philosophically accepted as being the "same person".